Mary Browner nee Cushing and Alec Fairburn walked along here, followed by her husband. Mary and Alec rented a rowing boat and went for a row and were pursued by her husband who murdered them offshore and mutilated the bodies.
All The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
The story has been ascribed to August 1888 or 1889. It was published in The Strand Magazine in January 1893 and is one of the eight stories contained in the compilation ‘His Last Bow’. A Miss Susan Cushing, an unremarkable lady of the greatest respectability living at Cross Street Croydon has received a parcel. In the cardboard box are two severed ears: one mail one female. Holmes and Watson visit the lady who can tell them nothing. However, the mystery will involve both her other sisters and a crime of passion committed off the shore of New Brighton on the Wirral in Cheshire.
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New Brighton Railway Station
Mary Browner nee Cushing and Alec Fairburn alighted here, followed by her husband.
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Cross Road, Croydon
The most likely candidate for ‘Cross Street’ where Miss Susan Cushing lived.
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East Croydon Railway Station
Holmes and Watson took the train from London Waterloo to meet Susan Cushing at Croydon. This is where they would have left the train.
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Waterloo Railway Station
Appears in many of the stories as being used by characters going to destinations in the South of England from London and vice versa.