The Wrong Box

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Marianne North, Alfred Sisley and Thomas Rowlandson. A tontine has come down to two elderly brothers who between them can barely manage a staircase, and then a railway accident leaves a nephew with a body, a barrel and every reason not to report either. Stevenson wrote it with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, who produced a draft that Stevenson then ...