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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson's famous works include the adventure novel Treasure Island (1881).
In the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, the protagonist Jim Hawkins obtains the treasure map after the death of a pirate known as Billy Bones, who had been staying at the Admiral Benbow inn.
Following Billy Bones's fatal stroke, Jim and his mother open the pirate's sea chest to collect money owed to them. Inside the chest, they discover a packet, which they take before fleeing the inn to escape a group of pirates led by the blind beggar Pew. Jim later brings this packet to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawny, where it is revealed to contain the map to the hidden treasure on Skeleton Island.1