The Suicide Club is an 1878 collection of three 19th-century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative.

They dine incognito in a London oyster bar where they are surprised to be accosted by a young man distributing cream tarts for free.

Florizel decides to help the club members to become happy, but also to dispatch the president abroad in the custody of Geraldine's younger brother, to be killed by the latter.

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.

In the story, former Lieutenant Brackenbury Rich is beckoned into the back of an elegantly appointed Hansom by a mysterious cabman who whisks him off to a party.

[citation needed] 1919: Richard Oswald directed another German movie version as the fourth segment of Unheimliche Geschichten (1919) starring Anita Berber and Conrad Veidt as Club President.

1929: Canadian playwright and theatrical manager Hugh Abercrombie Anderson successfully adapted the work for the stage, receiving good reviews.

[citation needed] 1936: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapted the story for Trouble for Two starring Robert Montgomery as Prince Florizel, Frank Morgan as Colonel Geraldine, Reginald Owen as President of the Club and with the addition of a female love interest played by Rosalind Russell.

1973: ABC Wide World of Mystery, Suicide Club broadcast February 13, 1973, adapted by Philip H. Reisman Jr., and starring Peter Haskell, Margot Kidder, and Joseph Wiseman.

Episode #87, broadcast May 7, starring Barry Nelson, Marian Seldes, John Baragrey, Dan Ocko, Lloyd Batista.