The Body Snatcher and Other Stories

This collection gathers late-nineteenth-century short fiction by Stevenson, mixing Edinburgh crime, Paris and London intrigue, and South Seas tales. The title story follows two medical students who buy corpses for a dissecting room and meet the man they thought they had already buried. Companion pieces include the Prince Florizel cycles of club and diamond intrigue, the conscience tale Markheim, and Pacific narratives of traders and island law. Recurring concerns are double lives, buried crime, and bargains that cannot be escaped. The volume is a sampler of independent stories, not a single novel.

Bound in green and gold image blocked black cloth. Dark green endleaves. Dark green slipcase.