A Kiss Before Dying

Levin, Ira

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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 fiancé’s plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth.

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Publish Date: 23/06/2011

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‘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 fiancé’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.

Additional information

Weight 205 g
Dimensions 196 × 130 × 22 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

275

Language

English

Edition

Introduction by Chelsea Cain

Dewey

813.54 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K