Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan is a comic novel written as a spoof of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published in 2000, it is the last book in the series.
In the book, Jim Hawkins has met a rum-addicted sailor known only as "Captain", who leaves Jim a treasure map upon his death. With his father dying, Jim is forced from the Benbow with his mother and his friend Groucho Marx to search for the buried treasure.
The book itself actually breaks the mould from Milligan's previous parody novels. Whilst his previous works were essentially comic versions of the original texts, this version adds Groucho Marx to the cast as the friend of Jim Hawkins, and breaks off from the original layout into a script format (usually when Groucho is speaking).
The story also includes references to his previous works, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan (which featured a running gag of a duck, in this case, a dog).
It is worth mentioning that Milligan himself starred as Ben Gunn in productions of Treasure Island for the Mermaid Theatre, perhaps why he decided to parody the novel.
The cover of the 2000 edition portrayed the Robert Newton version of Long John Silver.
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