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Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk is the second story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
[edit] Plot Introduction
This is a 19th century detective fiction short story set in the Latin Quarter of Paris where naïve American tourist Silas Q. Scuddamore finds himself embroiled in a dastardly plot.
[edit] Publication history
- 1878, UK, London Magazine, Pub date Jun-Oct 1878, Periodical
- 1882, UK, Chatto & Windus, Pub date 1882, Hardback
- 1985, UK, Puffin ISBN 0-14-036764-0, Pub date Aug 1997, Paperback
- 1991, USA, Carroll & Graf ISBN 0-88184-741-0, Pub date Sep 1991, Hardback
- 2000, USA, Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-41416-7, Pub date 2000, Paperback
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