The Dead Alive

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 page.