The Wrecker is an 1892 adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery.

[2] Stevenson described it as a "South Sea yarn" concerning "a very strange and defective plan that was accepted with open eyes for what seemed countervailing opportunities offered".

The book sold well but reviews were mixed, with a New York Times reviewer concluding that:[2] The Wrecker is a kind of blank-cartridge romance with a big explosion, which raises a dust, and if anything really has happened it escapes you in the flash and the cloud of smoke.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.