The Wrong Box
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
The Wrong Box - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Box_(novel) Release date is 2006-02-26
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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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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The Wrong Box - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Box_(novel) Release date is 2006-02-26
Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
"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.)
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Cousins -- Fiction Uncles -- Fiction Brothers -- Fiction Mystery fiction Avarice -- Fiction
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