abstract:The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine.
For instance, she said, an employee ticking thewrongbox when they enter your data into a database could mean a person ends up labelled as a former criminal or credit liability.
Tontines have been outlawed by most states out of a fear they would incite the sort of criminal conniving featured in comic fiction (for example, a 1996 Simpsons episode and the 1966 film TheWrongBox).