STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS AND OSBOURNE, LLOYD. — The Wrecker.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. Originally published in 1892, The Wrecker is an episodic adventure story written in collaboration with Stevenson's stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The loosely connected stories reflect how Stevenson and Osbourne wrote the book. Each contributed different sections, but agreed to develop characters and descriptions of places they both knew well. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. Pp.427/8 & 16(publisher's catalogues), frontispiece + 11 further black & white illustrations by William Hole and W.L.Metcalf, colour prize bookplate to inside front board, brown patterned endpapers, a few minor spots, cracking to inside hinges (but holding). Brown illustrated boards, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and edges. G+.** ""The Wrecker", episode 11 of season 1 of Roy Huggins' 1957 Western television series Maverick (1957) starring James Garner and Jack Kelly as Bret and Bart Maverick. The episode is described in the opening title credit as "Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrecker" and in the closing credits as "From a Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne". The Maverick brothers buy the wreck of the Flying Scud at a closed auction in San Francisco and try to find out why its cargo is apparently so valuable, prompting Bart to venture into a dangerous sea voyage during the second half of the episode. The supporting cast features Errol Flynn lookalike Patric Knowles as the character inspired by Jack Buckland and Karl Swenson as a colorful sea captain." (wiki).