Two elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine worth a fortune, and when a railway accident seems to kill one of them, his nephew Morris Finsbury hides the body in a box to keep the money in play. The crate goes astray across London, passing through the hands of a timid barrister, a sculptor’s assistant and a Broadwood grand piano.
A black comedy of the 1880s that reads like a farce on rails, written by Stevenson with his stepson. Download the free EPUB.