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

A Kiss Before Dying Paperback | Pages: 242 pages

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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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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)

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Between 1948 & 1954 legendary film director & master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock supplied us with unbearable tension in films like Rope, Strangers on a Train & Rear Window. Then in 1954 a 24 year old writer called Ira Levin published his first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, & added a new dimension to the word suspense.I've always felt that Levin's tale of murder & menace worked far better than either of the film adaptations. Perhaps Hitchcock could have made a better version ?

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

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

Amazing suspense and unpredictably. Levin wrote this when he was 23 (in 1953), then was a very successful playwrite (among other hits, he wrote the popular Deathtrap). He didn't write another novel until Rosemary's Baby in 1967.

The title 'A Kiss Before Dying' conjures up, for me, an image of a 1950s pulp thriller with a fabulous, stylish cover featuring a woman who looks like the hourglassy one from Mad Men and a man in a fedora concealing a gun. And indeed, that's pretty much exactly what A Kiss Before Dying is, on the face of it - it's a crime novel published in 1953 about a handsome psychopath who preys upon a series of rich young women in a bid to secure a stake in their father's fortune.And yet, while A Kiss

I had to stop myself from trying to read this in one sitting! I struggled between wanting to get to the next scene and wanting it to last longer. Really great tension, suspense, surprises. Ending was low-key but appropriate! Wish Ira Levin was still around....and writing!

Impressed... I am utterly impressed...! How on earth? How on earth did Levin manage to produce this? Oh my gosh! I might write an essay on this book for university in the upcoming academic year... Yes! I might! I really might! Perhaps I might even consider writing a dissertation on this!