The Dead Alive

For other uses, see Dead Alive (disambiguation).

Extract from Tribune popular science (1974) by Louis Agassiz

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]

  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.