The Wrong Box: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Wrong Box is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894); Osbourne, Lloyd (1868–1947).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Wrong Box
- Author credits: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894); Osbourne, Lloyd (1868–1947)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Avarice -- Fiction
- Brothers -- Fiction
- Cousins -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Uncles -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Humour
- Category: Novels
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