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Plot. 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.
- Cornell Woolrich
- 1948
I Married a Dead Man tells the story of an abandoned young pregnant woman who takes a cross-country train trip, on which she meets a pair of newlyweds the wife of whom is likewise pregnant. The train derails, but not before Patrice Hazzard asks Helen Georgesson to try on her wedding ring.
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Read book I Married a Dead Man online free by author Cornell Woolrich. Online reading I Married a Dead Man and summary + reviews. “"You and the young fellow, you're about the best medicine for her there is. Just having you around--" And if in the m...
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Plot Summary. I Married a Dead Man contains one of Woolrich's most convoluted plots. The book begins with a young woman, Helen, traveling to the West coast by train. About to give birth, she has been abandoned by the father of the child, and has little money and fewer prospects.
Jun 14, 2007 · Helen, a very young woman, finds herself seven months pregnant and abandoned by the father of her child. All that the father of her child has left her is a five dollar bill and train tickets from New York to the West Coast where she hopes to start a new life for herself and her baby.
When the train she's travelling on is involved in a terrible crash, abandoned, pregnant Helene (Baye) decides to assume the identity of a wealthy young woman who was killed in the wreck. But soon Helene is receiving anonymous threats from someone who knows who she really is.
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 ...
- Cornell Woolrich
