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Wilkie Collins, in full William Wilkie Collins, (born Jan. 8, 1824, London, Eng.— died Sept. 23, 1889, London), English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction.The Dead Alive, also called John Jago's Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.