![]() Since Daddy is the moralistic disinheriting type, our protagonist figures a kid before they are properly married and he's had time to work his charms and soften the old man up will just ruin everything. Except she goes and gets pregnant before his plan can come to fruition. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.Ī Kiss Before Dying is a taut little thriller about a sociopath who conceives an ingenuous plan to seduce the daughter of a wealthy copper baron. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. The solution may demand desperate measures. Her name is Dorothy she loves him, and she's pregnant. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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