The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 |
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| Author | Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 |
| Title | The Wrong Box |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Box_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Cousins -- Fiction |
| Subject | Uncles -- Fiction |
| Subject | Brothers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mystery fiction |
| Subject | Avarice -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 1585 |
| Release Date | Feb 26, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Nov 29, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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