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Lifetime: 1868 - 1947 Passed: ≈ 77 years ago

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Writer

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Lloyd Osbourne

Books by Lloyd Osbourne

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Wrong Box

Comedy Fiction Humour Novel
Family 19th century Comedy Inheritance Farce England Tontine Train crash Missing persons Dead bodies

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then rece...

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Ebb-Tide

Adventure Fiction Novel
Fortune Treasure Fate Chance Island Greed Ambition Shipwreck Theft Tahiti South Pacific Pearl Desperation

Three men, desperate and broke in Tahiti, seize a schooner whose officers have perished from smallpox. Their plan? To steal the vessel and its valuable cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a life of luxury. But their greed is fueled by the very ch...