Timeline
Lifetime:
1868 -
1947
Passed: ≈
77 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Lloyd Osbourne
Books by Lloyd Osbourne
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...
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...