BROADCASTS.com

The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894)

In Which Morris Suspects

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then receives the whole of the proceeds). The story involves the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, surplus dead bodies and innocent bystanders. A farce really. (Summary by AJM)

---

Listen next episodes of The Wrong Box:
Final Adjustment of the Leather Business , Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand , Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday , In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday , In Which Morris takes Action , In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice , Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box , Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand , The Lecturer at Large , The Maestro Jimson , The Magistrate in the Luggage Van , The Return of the Great Vance , The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First , The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second , William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage