The Dead Alive

For other uses, see Dead Alive (disambiguation).

The Dead Alive, also called John Jago's Ghost,^[1] is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.^[2][3] It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by the Northwestern University Press.^[4]

Extract from Tribune popular science (1974) by Louis Agassiz

Radio adaptation

The Dead Alive was presented on Suspense March 9, 1953. The 30-minute adaptation starred Herbert Marshall.^[5]

References

1. Lundin, Leigh (21 February 2016). "Wilkie Collins — The Dead Alive". SleuthSayers. London: SleuthSayers.org.
2. Lundin, Leigh (16 March 2016). "The Boorn Brothers". SleuthSayers. Manchester: SleuthSayers.org.
3. Borchard, Edwin (1932). Convicting the Innocent, Errors of Criminal Justice. New Haven: Yale University Press. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
4. Collins, Wilkie; Warden, Rob (2005). Wilkie Collins's The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0810122944.
5. Kirby, Walter (8 March 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. The Decatur Daily Review. p. 46. Retrieved 23 June 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Collins, Wilkie (1874). The Dead Alive. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• The Dead Alive public domain audiobook at LibriVox