The Wrong BoxRobert Louis Stevenson
The Wrong Box
by OpenStories
Original author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #1585.
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16 Chapters
- 1.Chapter I: In Which Morris Suspects4,305 words
- 2.Chapter II: In Which Morris takes Action4,771 words
- 3.Chapter III: The Lecturer at Large3,477 words
- 4.Chapter IV: The Magistrate in the Luggage Van1,317 words
- 5.Chapter V: Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box2,946 words
- 6.Chapter VI: The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First4,439 words
- 7.Chapter VII: In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice3,665 words
- 8.Chapter VIII: In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday5,512 words
- 9.Chapter IX: Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury’s Holiday4,316 words
- 10.Chapter X: Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand2,903 words
- 11.Chapter XI: The Maestro Jimson5,007 words
- 12.Chapter XII: Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand2,886 words
- 13.Chapter XIII: The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second3,081 words
- 14.Chapter XIV: William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage4,093 words
- 15.Chapter XV: The Return of the Great Vance2,090 words
- 16.Chapter XVI: Final Adjustment of the Leather Business1,184 words