A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying

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Publisher's Synopsis

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

'As dazzling as anything brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie' New York Times

'Incomparable excitement' New York Times

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.

This edition includes a brand new introduction by Anthony Horowitz.

About the Publisher

Corsair

Corsair has also joined Little, Brown from Constable & Robinson and publishes a wide range of literary titles, from the frank, funny musings of 'bad feminist' Roxane Gay to Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad and Martin Hughes-Game's memoir on life in the wild. Corsair is a diverse list, united under a single strategy: to publish the very best in ambitious and ground-breaking fiction.

Book information

ISBN: 9781472160232
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Corsair
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: -1g
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Spine width: 22mm