The Wrong Box

A farcical comic caper … from the author of Treasure Island! The Finsbury family has long had a Tontine–a scheme in which a group puts money into a 'pot' which then is scooped by the last survivor after everyone else dies – a macabre winner takes all scheme. Now there are only two aged uncles between Morris and John Finsbury and their fortune. A railway accident appears to dispose of one, and then the farce begins. The Wrong Box was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff