01846cam a22003853u 4500 1585 UtSlPG 20260610133047.0 m cr n 260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 The Wrong Box Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2006 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 "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.) Original publication data not identified Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Cousins -- Fiction Uncles -- Fiction Brothers -- Fiction Mystery fiction Avarice -- Fiction Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1585 43701 43701