A Kiss Before Dying

Author: Ira Levin; Chelsea Cain (Introduction by)

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  • : 9781849015912
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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  • : June 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2011
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  • : Ira Levin; Chelsea Cain (Introduction by)
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Description

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.

Promotion info

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

Awards

1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel

Author description

Ira Levin is the author of The Boys from Brazil, A Kiss Before Dying, Sliver, The Stepford Wives, and other bestsellers, as well as Broadway's longest-running thriller, Deathtrap. He has won two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association. He died in 2007.