page_title: The Suicide Club (short story collection)
section_title: Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk
hierarchical_section_title: The Suicide Club (short story collection) / Plot summary / Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk
caption_attribution_description: Image taken from: Title: "The Suicide Club and The Rajah's Diamond. ... A new edition, with eight illustrations by W. J. Hennessy. [Extracted from “New Arabian Nights.]", "New Arabian Nights" Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis Contributor: HENNESSY, W. J. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 012621.h.3." Page: 296 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1894 Publisher: Chatto &amp; Windus Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003501454
context_page_description: 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.
  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.
  It has been described as: "The Prince’s investigation of the macabre club and its criminally inclined president makes for one of Stevenson’s most exciting and suspenseful tales."
  The cycle has been adapted for stage, film and television on a number of occasions.
context_section_description: The second story in the cycle is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris where an American tourist finds himself embroiled in a dastardly plot.
  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. Kindly neighbour Dr. Noel arranges for Scuddamore and the body (concealed in a Saratoga trunk) to be smuggled to London in the company of Prince Florizel. Once in London, Florizel discovers the plot and reveals the victim to be Geraldine’s younger brother who has been murdered by the President of the Suicide Club in his escape from custody.
caption: Image taken from page 296 of 'The Suicide Club and The Rajah's Diamond.
exif: {"Image Copyright": "Public Domain, from the British Library's collections, 2013"}