Name: The Suicide Club
ISBN: 9780486414164

Robert Louis Stevenson

Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts," "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk," and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" chronicle the exploits of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.

The Suicide Club

THE SUICIDE CLUB is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights. The trilogy introduces the characters of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and his sidekick Colonel Geraldine. In this cycle they infiltrate a secret society of people intent on losing their lives. It has been described as: "The Prince's investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president makes for one of Stevenson's most exciting and suspenseful tales." The cycle has been adapted for stage, film and television on a number of occasions.

The Suicide Club (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

Archiell

This book is like dying. But like slow and painfully

Short story trilogy about a club for people who wish to end their lives chronicles the exploits of Prince Florizel and Colonel Geraldine as they travel incognito through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.