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Original Title:	A Kiss Before Dying
ISBN:	0786711647 (ISBN13: 9780786711642)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bud Corliss
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award for Best First Novel (1954)

A Kiss Before Dying Paperback | Pages: 242 pages

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Title	:	A Kiss Before Dying
Author	:	Ira Levin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 242 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2003 by Carroll & Graf Publishers (first published 1953)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Classics. Crime. Suspense

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A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.

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Oh. My. Goodness. A KISS BEFORE DYING is Excellent!I like Levin. I like his easy-to-read style of writing. I like the suspenseful way he plotted the route of the evildoer, and I like that he kept me guessing.I have to be careful here as I do not want to give anything away, but will say MURDER is the name of the game, and the story is set in the year's between 1949-1951 when tips were a quarter and young women were naive and gullible.Forbidden to attend the same college as her older sister Ellen,

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira LevinI stay away from detective stories. Even this excellent book was a near miss- I have read a few pages and was on the point of abandoning it. I tend to put away books quite quickly, a fault which is destined to make place for a second run of the books I admire, in case I run out of new books that I like. Since I know that I have some 70-80 books that not only I love, but with time I will forget much of their plot and events, what is the point to hang on to works

Everything begins like a fairy tale with one exception. Here prince charming is ambitious though as poor as a church mouse and princess is a daughter of a millionaire. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances she has to be killed. I dont reveal anything at this moment you can read it on the blurb.Despite this, career and money are still at fortune hunter's hands because as luck would have it on the horizon appears the sister of the murdered girl. But by a strange twist of fate she either

An oldie but a goody!

Heres one that really surprised me. I had not expected to like this one as much. And it is also one I dont know how I had missed for so long. I came across this title because an author I highly respect talked about the book and how it had influenced his writing career--novels (along with Ruth Rendells One Across, Two Downwhich is now also on the TBR pile). This book is written in the 50s-60s style with more narrative telling than showing but the author is highly skilled and pulls it off. I

Thank you, thank you, thank you to my friend Delee, who recommended this humdinger of a novel. Ira Levin, best known for his terrifying Rosemary's Baby, wrote A Kiss Before Dying as his first novel. The novel won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and readers will marvel that this suspense-filled thrill ride of a book could possibly have been written by a first-time novelist, one just 24 years old.Levin packs surprise after surprise into this novel, a book that will leave you exhausted

It always amazes me how many people have never heard of Ira Levin. "Ira who? Never heard of him". "You saw the movie The Stepford Wives or Rosemary's Baby? Well, Levin wrote those". Yup, everyone saw those movies but still they don't recognize Levin's name. It's a shame really because he was a brilliant writer with an amazing gift at storytelling. In fact, A Kiss Before Dying was his first and it won an award. It was written over six decades ago but it's an easy to read. Not nearly as dated as