A kiss before dying

A kiss before dying

I’ve read the book called Kiss Before Dying. It’s a criminal novel written by the author Ira Levin, who also have written the well known books Rosemary’s Baby and The Boys From Brazil. Enough about that, Now I’ll give you a summary about what the book A Kiss Before Dying is all about:
 
SUMMARY
 
Dorothy and Bud are a couple who attend the Stoddard college in BlueRiver. They love each other, and things were running nice until a slight problem occurred. "Dorrie" was pregnant. Bud didn’t at that point of time really want a baby, because that meant for him that he had got to quit school and get a job, something he didn’t want to. He asks Dorrie to take some pills that will terminate the pregnancy, and promises that he will marry her if they don’t work (somethingthat Dorrie is very keen on.) The pills however never worked and Bud realises what’s going to happen:
 
He won’t get the education he had hoped for. And he wouldn’t see a single dollar from Dorrie’s rich father who wouldn’t be particularly happy about the marriage. At that point he takes his decision: he has got to kill her. After some comprehensive research and investigations he manages tofigure out a nice plan. But to his disappointment things don’t turn out like he had planned to. things starts to hurry as the wedding day approaches, and he has to improvise. However, on the day of the marriage he on a clever way manage to push his darling out from a tall building, and he makes it look like a suicide too. Dorothy is dead.  
A time after the murder Bud transfers from Stoddard toCaldwell and becomes Ellen’s boyfriend,(something we gets to know later in the book) the weird thing is that Ellen is Dorothy’s older sister. Ellen is very suspicious about the fact that her little sister committed suicide so she decides to go to Blue River to investigate the case herself. On the way to Blue River Ellen writes a letter to Bud where she tells him about her plans. In Blue River Ellen alsogets to know two persons that she suspects have murdered her sister, don’t having a single clue of who it really is.
 
When Ellen is together with Dwight Powell (one of her suspects) at his home Bud suddenly pops up and shoots him, claiming Dwight was about to kill her. Ellen jumps crying into bud’s arms... A few minutes later she was dead too.
 
In the summer Bud is back home at his mothershouse. There he gets his sick thought about killing Leo Kingships last daughter, Marion. However if he don’t kill her it would be nice to get Leo Kingship as the father in law. (he had tried two times before)
 
He decides to quit school and try to get knowing Marion. He moves to New York and it doesn’t take a long time before Marion falls into love with him. Maybe not a big thing when you knowall about her interests on beforehand, Bud had spent a long time trying to remember what the recent two girlfriends had said about their sister, everything he could remember he put down on a list.
 
Suddenly Gordon Gant shows up, one of the two that Ellen had suspected for the murder. Now he had involved in the case, and he was suspicious about the murders, he told his ideas to Leo, but herejected him. But when Gordon found the list Bud had written with all of Marion interests on, Leo became more suspicious.
 
One day Bud went with Leo, Marion and Gordon (Gordon under a false name) to Leo kingship’s copper facility. After being shown around Leo and Gant suddenly starts to confront him about the murder on Dorothy and Ellen. Bud denies it all, but after being threatened by being pushedin a copper smelter he admits it all.
 
Now it was his turn... Bud "fell" into the red-hot copper smelter, a murderer was killed.
 
The main characters
 
Dorothy:
The naive... Dorothy seems like a pleasant and nice girl, maybe a little too nice. she does well at school, but in the real life she may have got something to learn. I think she is a little naive and unaware of what’s going on...