Robert Louis Stevenson
1) The Wrecker
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This intriguing tale, written by Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, is a sweeping adventure centering on the exploits of American Loudon Dodd. In the story, Dodd and his scheming friend, Jim Pinkerton, purchase a supposedly shipwrecked vessel called the Flying Scud that lay abandoned on Midway Island. The men are led on a twisting and turning journey in their attempts to take hold of the ship and unravel the mystery surrounding its demise.
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Two brothers will do whatever it takes to hide a body and inherit a fortune in this laugh-out-loud crime caper Elderly Joseph and Masterman Finsbury are the last survivors of a tontine established in their youth. Their nephews, Morris and John, have one simple goal: Keep Uncle Joseph alive longer than Uncle Masterman. If they succeed, the brothers will be set for life. If they fail, the fortune goes to cousin Michael-and poverty will be their fate....
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Published in 1894, the year of Stevenson's death, this novel tells of three unscrupulous men entrusted to deliver a cargo of champagne aboard a ship whose crew has died of smallpox. The three embark on a drunken voyage, only to discover an island whose sole European inhabitant, Attwater, has amassed a fortune in pearls.