Truth is truly stranger than fiction but when Collins combines them togetherit results in The <strong>Dead Alive</strong> the forerunner of modern detective fic... » 

Truth is truly stranger than fiction but when Collins combines them togetherit results in The Dead Alive the forerunner of modern detective fiction. Aclose friend of Charles Dickens Collins novel is based on the sensationalturn of the century trial of Jesse and Stephen Boorn in Vermont. In The DeadAlive a farm manager mysteriously disappears and the Meadowcroft brothers arecharged with his murder. But without a body no one knows what the outcome oftheir trial will be. Twists and turns abound in The Dead Alive keeping thereader captivated page after page. «