The Wrong Box

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

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.

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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.