Keith Morrison reads “The Dead Alive” by Wilkie Collins

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Hey, Dateline fans! As a bonus, we’re giving you episode 1 from season 3 of our podcast Morrison Mysteries. This season, Keith Morrison introduces you to the Meadowcroft family, living on a sprawling American farm. The household is teeming with rivalry and passion, envy and anger. When someone mysteriously disappears, two brothers are accused of murder...but all is not as it seems. Listen to Keith’s reading of “The Dead Alive,” a chilling novel from 150 years ago based on a real trial, to find out what really happened. If you like what you hear, just search “Morrison Mysteries” and subscribe to Dateline Premium. Subscribers receive ad-free listening and early access to subsequent episodes: https://link.chtbl.com/mmst_fdlw

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0:00.0	It wasn't the garden's fault. No, the garden itself was beautiful. This serene escape from the tension spoken and silent. Inside that looming stone farmhouse.
0:16.2	How inviting it was out here!
0:19.0	Flowing greens, small riots of flowered color, a small patch of American Eden.
0:25.0	Oh, but what happened here?
0:28.0	Like a violation in the dead of night.
0:31.0	Who were those two figures, fairly visible in the moonlight, speaking in hushed and
0:35.8	urgent tones?
0:36.8	She, young, beautiful, charming.
0:42.8	He, older, wild-eyed, and intense.
0:48.6	Exactly what passed between them, no one else knew.
0:52.2	And yet, their garden meeting planted seeds and those seeds grew into jealousy
0:59.4	betrayal a vanishing and a sentence of death.
1:04.0	I'm Keith Morris and this is season 3 of Morris and mysteries.
1:17.6	Our story begins far from that American garden.
1:21.4	It's the mid 1800s, London. Our narrator is the young attorney, Philip
1:27.1	La Frank. He is driven, ambitious, and so overworked he is collapsed.
1:33.6	Slow down, the doctor will tell him,
1:35.6	take a relaxing trip.
1:38.0	So, Philip decides to see some distant relatives in America,
1:42.4	where he'll soon visit that beautiful garden.
1:47.0	Here now is The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins. Chapter 1. The Sick Man
2:10.0	Hard all right, said the doctor. lungs all right, no organic disease that I can discover.
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