The Dead Alive
Author(s): Wilkie Collins
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Published 1800 -1900
Narrators: Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Mary Ballard-Johansson, Samanem, Tadhg, P Moscato, Lucy Perry
Number of Chapters: 12
Length: 2 hours and 08 minutes
Language: English
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body is found in a kiln. The Meadowcroft brothers stand accused of the crime, but are they guilty? The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Stephen Boorn were sentenced to death for the murder of their brother-in-law, but were they wrongly convicted? (Summary by M Z Spark, Phil, and Barry)