A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin
£9.99
Mr B's review
This is not your average boy-meets-girl. When Dorothy gets swept off her feet by the man of her dreams, all she wants is for them to make it to the altar – too bad her man forces both their futures to take a much darker turn. Levin’s debut (before Rosemary’s Baby fame), is a twisty, perfectly paced psychological drama – and a true bluprint for the modern psych thriller – in three delicious acts. You won’t be able to look away. – Laura
Description
‘As dazzling as anything brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie’ New York Times
‘Incomparable excitement’ New York Times
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiance’s plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth.
So the young man provides his bride to be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby – and perhaps no Dorothy either…
A Kiss before Dying, Levin’s first novel, earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and is regarded as a modern classic.
Publisher Review
Here is not merely an extraordinary first but an extraordinary suspense novel by the highest professional standards; and you have an evening of incomparable excitement ahead of you. Levin combines great talent for pure novel writing with strict whodunit tricks as dazzling as anything brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie * New York Times * Nail-biting stuff * Daily Mail * Incomparable excitement. * New York Times * Nail-biting stuff. * Daily Mail *
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