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The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894)

The Maestro Jimson

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)

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Final Adjustment of the Leather Business , Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand , The Return of the Great Vance , The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second , William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage