Download The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson. A dark comedy of inheritance, deception, and British eccentricity. Available in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats.
The Wrong Box Summary
The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is a farcical Victorian comedy involving a tontine (a deadly insurance investment), mistaken identities, and a missing corpse. Combining dark humor, satire, and thrilling misadventure, this lively novel pokes fun at greed, bureaucracy, and English respectability.
The Wrong Box Excerpt
Short Summary: A tontine death race, a missing body, and a string of hilarious deceptions tangle two bumbling families in a madcap plot of inheritance and absurdity.
"The scheme was simple. The last surviving member of the tontine would inherit the entire fortune. Unfortunately, the members were dying a bit... awkwardly."
When Joseph Finsbury is mistakenly declared dead, his greedy relatives scramble to conceal or reveal the news depending on their interests, leading to a sequence of misdelivered coffins, impersonations, and runaway carriages.
Victorian decorum meets chaotic farce, and no good deed—or bad plot—goes unpunished.
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