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Author: Levin, Ira

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 13 March 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
197 x 128 x 21 | 230g

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 TimesDorothy 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.