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]