- Wrecker
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Lloyd Osbourne
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The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only in the last chapter that different story elements become linked.
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- Chapters
- Prologue - In the Marquesas
- Chapter 1 - A Sound Commercial Education
- Chapter 2 - Roussillon Wine
- Chapter 3 - To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton
- Chapter 4 - In Which I Experience Extremes of Fortune
- Chapter 5 - In Which I am Down on My Luck in Paris
- Chapter 6 - In Which I Go West
- Chapter 7 - Irons in the Fire, part 1
- Chapter 7 - Irons in the Fire, part 2
- Chapter 8 - Faces on the City Front
- Chapter 9 - The Wreck of the 'Flying Scud'
- Chapter 10 - In Which the Crew Vanish, part 1
- Chapter 10 - In Which the Crew Vanish, part 2
- Chapter 11 - In Which Jim and I Take Different Ways
- Chapter 12 - The 'Nora Creina'
- Chapter 13 - The Island and the Wreck
- Chapter 14 - The Cabin of the 'Flying Scud'
- Chapter 15 - The Cargo of the 'Flying Scud'
- Chapter 16 - In Which I Turn Smuggler, and the Captain Casuist
- Chapter 17 - Light From the Man of War
- Chapter 18 - Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
- Chapter 19 - Travels with a Shyster, part 1
- Chapter 19 - Travels with a Shyster, part 2
- Chapter 20 - Stallbridge-Le-Carthew
- Chapter 21 - Face to Face
- Chapter 22 - The Remittance Man, part 1
- Chapter 22 - The Remittance Man, part 2
- Chapter 23 - The Budget of the 'Currency Lass', part 1
- Chapter 23 - The Budget of the 'Currency Lass', part 2
- Chapter 24 - A Hard Bargain
- Chapter 25 - A Bad Bargain, part 1
- Chapter 25 - A Bad Bargain, part 2
- Epilogue
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