July 8: The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson

We have changed this from June to July. Let's get together to read this very short and very funny novella.
"The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is a black comedy novel published in 1889. Two elderly brothers are the last survivors of a tontine—a financial scheme where the final survivor claims everything. When one brother appears to have died in a train crash, his nephews desperately attempt to conceal a body to protect their inheritance. Meanwhile, a corpse gets shipped in the wrong container, triggering a farcical chain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Box_(novel)#:~:text=The%20Wrong%20Box%20is%20a,surviving%20members%20of%20a%20tontine.

The full text of the novella
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1585

Audiobook
https://librivox.org/the-wrong-box-by-robert-louis-stevenson-and-lloyd-osbourne/