Robert Louis Stevenson

Adventures of a Corpse Robert Louis Stevenson

Adventures of a Corpse is an action novel in which Stevenson uses his great talents as an adventure storyteller in a detective theme that he handles with the usual effects of clarity and suspense. We are talking about detective theme because it does not become a detective novel, since it lacks such basic elements as a crime and a detective, but it does not stop having a corpse going from one place to another and a decisive economic motive connected with the death that forms the basis of the work. The constant ironic allusions to police methods, famous policemen, imaginary detectives like Robert Skill, would make us think of a satire of that genre of novel.