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Title:

Wrecker, The
 

Authors:

Genres:

Mystery
Humour & Satire
Adventure

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1892-00-00  

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Blurb: 
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.

The different loosely connected stories reflected how Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne wrote the book. Each contributed different sections but agreeing to develop characters and descriptions of places they both knew well.