Markheim was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in the year of 1850. After he married an American woman he lived in San Francisco and also in New York State. When he was young he had a lung disease and as he grew older it developed into tuberculosis. To improve his health with cleaner, fresher air he and his family moved to the south pacific island of Samoa. The natives there loved him for his story telling and called him Tusitala (teller of tales). He died while living on the island and was buried on a hilltop by the local native chiefs.

Markheim was a very interesting story in which a man named Markheim kills a shopkeeper, for his money, and while looking for the money is confronted by a stranger who makes Markheim fell guilty enough to turn himself in. The question is...