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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

Location(s): United Kingdom

Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction

Era(s): 1880s

Morris and John Finsbury stand to gain a lot of money if their Uncle Masterman dies, but none if Uncle Joseph dies first. So when Joseph seems to have come to an untimely end in a railway accident, a farcical sequence is set in motion. Determined to conceal the death, Morris hides the body in a barrel which he then ships to London. How will the situation resolve itself and for how long can the deception continue?

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