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The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club

The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights.


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Robert Louis Stevenson photo

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

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