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A Kiss Before Dying

with a brand new introduction by Anthony Horowitz

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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.

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.©2017 Ira Levin Contemporary Fiction Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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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
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This novel is pure genius. I don't know how it's taken me so long to discover it.

Genius

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I enjoyed it. I found it also a bit wee bit grizzly..It was good though.

Great 👍

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And very well-read. Kept me in suspense until the very end. Ira Levin was a genius!

Wonderful book

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Utterly gripping. I would go as far as to say 'masterpiece'. And generally I find most books not as good as I'd hoped... Levin was 23 when he wrote this. Remarkable.
I've been married for 12 years and this is the first time I've ever pestered my wife to read something. I just REALLY want to talk to her about it. She's just read the first few pages and is IN.
The narration is also excellent and really catches the strange nature of the tale.
In short, the best novel I've read for a long time. Do yourself a favour and get it.

Superb

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Absolutely loved this book and beautifully read. Flew through it. It was so so exciting. Brilliant character development and plot.

Excellent and riveting

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