The Dynamiter (1885)

London in the early days of Conan Doyle, Utah and the Mormons, Cuba in the days of sugar plantations and black slaves - all these are cleverly linked in the series of episodes presented here and connected by the would-be perpetrator of terrorist outrages on behalf of Irish nationalism. Under the guise of light-heartedness the stories present a sinister parallel and the same moral dilemmas that have recurred more than a hundred years after they were written.
Mrs Stevenson's "Introduction" details the circumstances in which, during Stevenson's serious illness in Hyeres near Toulon, the book was written. ( )