Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · exile

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, written in three days and burnt and rewritten after his wife told him what was wrong with it. A lawyer notices that his friend's will leaves everything to a man nobody has met, and follows the question through a London where the same house has two doors and two names.

1. 1
   The door in Soho

   Utterson and Enfield walk past a blind, blistered door in a busy street, and Enfield tells the story of a man who trampled a child and then paid her family off with a cheque signed by somebody respectable.

2. 2
   Cavendish Square

   Dr Lanyon's house, where the medical establishment sits - and where Utterson goes for an explanation and gets only an old quarrel about Jekyll's work having become, in Lanyon's words, wrong in the mind.

3. 3
   Jekyll's house

   A handsome square, a fire, a bow window - and the back of the same building is the blistered door in Soho, which is the whole novella in one piece of architecture, and the reason the map is worth drawing.

4. 4
   Regent's Park

   He sits on a bench in the January sun feeling well for the first time in weeks, and the change comes over him in public and without the drug - the point at which he can no longer choose which one he is.

5. 5
   The door in Soho

   Hyde beats Sir Danvers Carew to death in the street with a cane, and the search leads back to the rooms behind the door - and Utterson breaks in with an axe and finds a body in the cabinet and a letter that explains it.