Download or read book The Dead Alive written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first idea of this little story was suggested to the author by a printed account of atrial which actually took place, early in the present century, in the United States...""It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers,that all the 'improbable events' in the story are matters of fact, taken from the printed narrative.Anything which 'looks like truth' is, in nine cases out of ten, the invention of the author."