The Dead Alive
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About This Book
Truth is truly stranger than fiction, but when Collins combines them together, it results in The Dead Alive, the forerunner of modern detective fiction. A close friend of Charles Dickens, Collins' novel is based on the sensational turn of the century trial of Jesse and Stephen Boorn in Vermont. In The Dead Alive, a farm manager mysteriously disappears and the Meadowcroft brothers are charged with his murder. But without a body, no one knows what the outcome of their trial will be. Twists and turns abound in The Dead Alive, keeping the reader captivated page after pageThe first idea of this lit...
Chapters (13)
- THE DEAD ALIVE
- CHAPTER I. THE SICK MAN.
- CHAPTER II. THE NEW FACES.
- CHAPTER III. THE MOONLIGHT MEETING.
- CHAPTER IV. THE BEECHEN STICK.
- CHAPTER V. THE NEWS FROM NARRABEE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE LIME-KILN.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MATERIALS IN THE DEFENSE.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONFESSION.
- CHAPTER IX. THE ADVERTISEMENT.
- CHAPTER X. THE SHERIFF AND THE GOVERNOR.
- CHAPTER XI. THE PEBBLE AND THE WINDOW.
- CHAPTER XII. THE END OF IT.
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