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The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne · 1889

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A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.

Genre
humorBritish mysterymysteryadventurecrime
Setting
VictorianLondonEngland
Audience
adult
Length
short · 188 pages

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