The Dead Alive, also called John Jago\'s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.
The Secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamond Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton\'s motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable.
The Dead Alive, also called John Jago\'s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case