William Irish is rightly called the Edgar Poe of the twentieth century. His psychologically intense, sharply dynamic narratives keep the reader in an atmosphere of anxiety and anticipation until the last page. Helen Georgeson from the novel “I Married a Dead Man” lives in constant anticipation of the exposure of the impostor - after all, she appropriated the name of the woman who died in a train crash. And when they begin to blackmail her, she decides to kill...In the USA, the name of W. Irish is extremely popular, and many of his works have been reworked for cinema, radio and television.