# The Wrong Box

By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.

"The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is a black comedy novel published in 1889. Two elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine—a financial scheme where the final survivor claims everything. When one brother appears to have died in a train crash, his nephews desperately attempt to conceal a body to protect their inheritance. Meanwhile, a corpse gets shipped in the wrong container, triggering a farcical chain of mistaken identities and panicked cover-ups as multiple characters scramble to dispose of evidence they fear will implicate them in murder. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Cousins -- Fiction; Uncles -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Mystery fiction; Avarice -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Wrong Box](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/2330) by Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson (6 h 20 min, English)

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