Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Frank Delaney, written under the pseudonym of Francis Bryan. It is a sequel to the novel Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Twelve years after the events chronicled in "Treasure Island," Jim Hawkins (the narrator) takes up ownership of the Admiral Benbow Inn. He improves the inn with his share of the treasure taken from the island, and becomes well known as a raconteur of his adventures. He is visited by a lady travelling by coach from Bristol, without
The Earl and the Girl he learns from the landlord that some strangers have been asking about him, he concludes that there is trouble brewing. Dick persuades Jim Cheese to exchange identities with him, taking his name and even his girlfriend, and entrusting Elphin to Jim's care. The American lawyer finds Jim and tells him that he is an earl, and advances him money on the strength of his title. Elphir runs across a friend, Daisy Fallowfield, at the inn, and the whole party go off to the ball, where Elphir has to introduce Jim to her aunt, Miss Virginia Bliss, as her fiancé. All