# The Wrong Box

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- Authors: [R.L. Stevenson](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-lindsay), [Lloyd Osbourne](https://www.bookquiver.com/lloyd-osbourne)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-11-20

## Description

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

## Editions

### The Wrong Box

- Publisher: hachette_india_little_brown
- ISBN: 978-93-5731-154-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-11-20
- Language: en_GB