The Dead Alive

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 Northwestern Press.[4]

Not to be confused with Dead Alive, the alternative title of Braindead.

Radio adaptation

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

gollark: Just take your regular house, translate it up a bit if it has a basement, then rotate it 180 degrees around the centre of the bottom floor. You now have a bunker.
gollark: Bold of you to assume I have a bunker.
gollark: It's a joke. It probably won't. Not for this reason anyway.
gollark: After society falls, only the strong survive... and also those with toilet paper for some reason.
gollark: Perhaps they have developed a way to transmute toilet paper into food.

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 (March 8, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 46. Retrieved June 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.


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