Kidnapped by Robert Louis Steveson is an exciting story of a young orphan boy David Balfour who is given a letter from his father by a protestant minister telling him to head to the House of Shaws. A revelation arises from the letter that David a seventeen- year-old is from a wealthy family and he undertakes a journey in order to meet his wealthy relatives. With shipwrecks crimes suspense danger adventure and even murder does David eventually get his fortune Part of the Great Illustrated Classics series.