I Married a Dead Man

**The novel behind the famous films ORIGINAL SIN starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas, and NO MAN OF HER OWN starring Barbara Stanwyck and John Lund.**

A pregnant Helen Georgesson flees an abusive relationship by hoping on a train and hoping for a new life with her unborn child. While in the ladies room with a wealthy woman named Patrice Hazzard, also pregnant with her first child, they fall victim to a tragic train crash which claims Patrice’s life along with her husband. When Helen wakes up in the hospital mistaken for “Patrice Hazzard,” wearing her wedding ring and meeting her in-laws (whom had never met the real Patrice before,) she decides to claim this new opportunity and make a better life for her and her newborn son. However, Helen’s evil ex-lover has other plans for her, including blackmail, terror, and ruining this fantasy life.

“Cornell Woolrich deserves to be discovered and rediscovered by each generation." – Ray Bradbury

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "Pulp-Fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full length novels. One of his most famous stories is It Had to be Murder which was adapted into the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954. Check out the countless other Woolrich Novels, Novellas and Short Stories, also available as EBooks, from the Estate of Cornell Woolrich and Renaissance Literary & Talent!