I Married a Dead Man

Cornell Woolrich

Original title: I married a dead man

first published 1949 ImPress, 2003 263 pages

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Eight months pregnant and alone, Helen Georgesson's only hope is the five dollar bill and the train ticket back to her home town in San Francisco. On the train she befriends newlyweds Patrice and Hugh Hazzard. Tragedy strikes and the train crashes, killing both the Hazzards instantly. When Helen awakes in hospital she discovers she has given birth in the wreckage, and that she has been mistaken for Patrice. On findin...

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I Married a Dead Man edition · 2024 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241695869
I Married a Dead Man edition · 2022 · Renaissance Literary & Talent · 218 pages · 9781950369690
I married a dead man edition · 2003 · ImPress · 263 pages
I Married a Dead Man edition · 1999 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780140258233
I married a dead man edition · 1994 · Penguin Books · 254 pages
I Married a Dead Man paperback · 1983 · Ballantine Books · 180 pages · 9780345306708

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