The Wrong Box
Fiction

The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis Stevenson

"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.) Originally issued 2006-02-26. This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1585).
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The Wrong Box

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