{"product_id":"2940014047579","title":"THE WRONG BOX (A LOST COFFIN?)","description":"THE WRONG BOX………is full of humor the result of Stevenson's uncanny ability to weave ever changing plot twists into the overall story itself without ever losing a sense of continuity. 175 Pages in print.  A humorous and fun read!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This volume includes a “Detailed Biography” of our author, Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Finsbury is a character whose heart may be in the right place but his head never is. Constantly preoccupied with trivial intellectual pursuits, he allows his leather business to go heavily into debt to the brink of ruin. Having raised his two nephews, John and Morris, since the death of their father, the news of the loss of their fortune to Joseph Finsbury's malfeasance lays the ground work for all that is to come. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorris, who is shrewd and extremely self-centered, is given the ailing leather business as consolation. But Morris counts on Joseph winning the tontine (investment scheme) to make him whole. A tontine is a scheme where participants pay an equal amount of money into a kitty and the last one living gets it all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three are involved in a train wreck and the assumed body of Joseph Finsbury is found by Morris and John who hatch a plan to first hide the body and then ship it back to their home in Bloomsbury, London, where they will pretend Joseph is still alive; which he needs to be to keep their claim to the tontine (investment scheme) intact. It is during shipment that its' destination is changed as a sort of practical joke and mayhem ensues shortly thereafter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bulk of the story essentially has people coming home and finding a dead man in their house whom they've never seen before, dead or alive, and who definitely wasn't there when they left. The problem then is obvious; What to do with the body? It is here that Stevenson is ultra-creative with the solutions these poor unfortunate souls come up with long before Bernie ever had two losers over for the weekend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of Stevenson's less familiar works but also one of his best. The problem you will encounter with this book is that putting this very addicting book down. You will read and read it again to search the hidden treasure left on this Island on which only few elected spirits are claimed to wreck being happy of doing it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking for another good book?  Just enter the name \"TLC BOOKS, Edited\" at the search box and you will be taken to our main page, where you will be able to peruse all our titles…many are Christian and Wholesome novels.","brand":"TLC BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069114466544,"sku":"2940014047579","price":1.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014047579_p0.jpg?v=1763599699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014047579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}