The Green Mile · Book 1
The Two Dead Girls
- Published
- 1 March 1996
- Pages
- 92
- ISBN-13
- 9780613096485
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Two Dead Girls (March 1996) opens Stephen King's serialized Green Mile: death-row guard Paul Edgecombe narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle man convicted of murdering two young girls, in the first of six slim installments published between March and August 1996.
Its place in The Green Mile
The Two Dead Girls is book 1 in the The Green Mile series. It is followed by The Mouse on the Mile. See the full The Green Mile reading order.
Paul Edgecombe, head guard on E Block -- the death-row wing nicknamed 'the Green Mile' for its sickly-green linoleum -- narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls. Coffey turns out to possess a miraculous healing gift, and as Edgecombe and his fellow guards come to know him, the certainty of his guilt begins to crack even as his execution date approaches. Stephen King wrote The Green Mile as a serialized novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613096485