# I Married A Dead Man

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- Book: [I Married A Dead Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornell-woolrich/i-married-a-dead-man) ([I Married A Dead Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornell-woolrich/i-married-a-dead-man.md))
- Authors: [Cornell Woolrich](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornell-woolrich)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4169-586-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2024-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth – and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways…