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A review by kailey_luminouslibro
The Wrong Box by Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson
5.0
This book is hilarious! I didn't know that Stevenson could write like this, since most of his stuff can be rather dark and dreary.
This mystery spoof is one ridiculous circumstance after another. The characters are all running circles around each other! There are far too many uncles. Why does everyone and their mother have an uncle waiting in the wings of every scene? haha! Every character seems to be of rather questionable moral integrity but basically respectable and decent until a corpse appears in their parlor.
The same corpse keeps getting lost, and the disguises and mistaken identities certainly keep things humming. I love that from start to finish, we don't see a single policeman or detective. The dialogue is snappy and ... oh, the whole thing is just wild! haha! It reminds me a lot of P.G. Wodehouse's funny books.
This mystery spoof is one ridiculous circumstance after another. The characters are all running circles around each other! There are far too many uncles. Why does everyone and their mother have an uncle waiting in the wings of every scene? haha! Every character seems to be of rather questionable moral integrity but basically respectable and decent until a corpse appears in their parlor.
The same corpse keeps getting lost, and the disguises and mistaken identities certainly keep things humming. I love that from start to finish, we don't see a single policeman or detective. The dialogue is snappy and ... oh, the whole thing is just wild! haha! It reminds me a lot of P.G. Wodehouse's funny books.