A Kiss Before Dying - Softcover

Levin, Ira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786711647 ISBN 13: 9780786711642

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 2003

Synopsis

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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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 ever brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie.--Anthony Boucher

The book is a succession of quite legitimate surprises, the suspense is admirably sustained, the detail is thorough and convincing, and the writing is considerably above the level usually associated with fictional crime and passion. A pleasure to recommend.

Book Description:

Ira Levin's award-winning first novel reissued with a new introduction by Chelsea Cain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786711647
• ISBN 13: 9780786711642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304