Prince Florizel of Bohemia, bored in London, wanders the city in disguise and stumbles into the Suicide Club, where members draw cards to decide who dies next. Further linked tales follow a stolen diamond through bandboxes and green-blinded houses, and the collection ends with The Pavilion on the Links, a tense siege on a lonely Scottish coast.
Stevenson’s first book of fiction, playful and macabre, and an ancestor of the modern thriller. Download the free EPUB.