Robert Louis Stevenson is one of Edinburgh’s great writers, with novels including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. As well as a novelist, Stevenson was a travel writer and essayist and moved around the world extensively. He is now evaluated as a peer of authors such as Joseph Conrad and Henry James, with new scholarly studies and organisations devoted to him. Throughout the vicissitudes of his scholarly reception, Stevenson has remained popular worldwide. The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in1878, 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. Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk is the second story of The Suicide Club collection. In the story, while lodging in Paris naïve young Silas Q. Scuddamore is lured away by a beautiful young lady who promises a secret assignation but fails to appear. Returning to his hotel dejected he is shocked to discover a dead man in his bed… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk” by Robert Louis Stevenson on our website.
