Humour

The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

Two elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine—a financial scheme where the final survivor claims everything.

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About this book

"The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is a black comedy novel published in 1889. Two elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine—a financial scheme where the final survivor claims everything. When one brother appears to have died in a train crash, his nephews desperately attempt to conceal a body to protect their inheritance. Meanwhile, a corpse gets shipped in the wrong container, triggering a farcical chain of mistaken identities and panicked cover-ups as multiple characters scramble to dispose of evidence they fear will implicate them in murder.

Format: EPUB
Language: English
Length: 200 pages
Published: 1 January 1889
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 9783732681853