A Kiss Before Dying Resumen En Ingles

Part 1:Dorothy

Bud Corliss wants a lot of money for a golden future. So he starts a relationship with Dorothy Kingship, who has a rich father; Leo Kingship: president of Kingship Copper, an enormous corporation. But then she gets pregnant and he is very angry. He pretends he loves her and makes her promise to take some pills to get rid of the baby. In a flashback it is shown that the young man(Bud) was very popular at school. After the war he had several jobs and had an affair with a rich widow. He decided to study at Stoddard University, where he met Dorothy Kingship.
He gives Dorothy the pills, promising to marry her if they don’t work. Dorothy has two elder sisters, Ellen and Marion. Their mother died a year after she and her husband were divorced. The pills do not work and theydecide to get married on Friday, in three day’s time. He makes Dorothy promise not to mention the marriage to her sister Ellen. In fact Bud doesn’t want to get married and starts making plans to murder Dorothy. On Thursday he asks Dorothy to translate a Spanish line for him, which reads: ‘Darling, I hope you will forgive me for the unhappiness that I will cause. There is nothing else that I cando.’ He mails the translation, in Dorothy’s handwriting, to Ellen Kingship. Then he gives Dorothy poison pills, but she doesn’t take them. On Friday morning Dorothy is not dead. She says the pills didn’t work, but he assumes she didn’t take them. He realises that Ellen will receive the note in the afternoon and Dorothy!
must be dead before that time. They decided to marry right away. When theyarrive at the Marriage License Bureau, it is closed. Bud knows that, but he pretends to be surprised and sorry to find it closed. He says they can spend the next half-hour on the roof of the building, which is fourteen storeys high. Then he pushes Dorothy from the building, sending her to her death. The newspapers report Dorothy’s death and say it is suicide, because of the note her sister received.Part 2: Ellen

Mr. Kingship tells his daughter Ellen to stop blaming herself for Dorothy’s death. Ellen is not sure Dorothy committed suicide and she decides to investigate. She suddenly realises that there is a Marriage License Bureau in the Municipal Building and that Dorothy probably went there to get married. She suspects Gordon Gant and Dwight Powell, two men who might have beenDorothy’s friend. Gant says he hardly knew Dorothy, and swears he did not kill her. Ellen writes to Bud that Dwight Powell must be the man she is looking for. She doesn’t mention Gordon Gant’s name. When she find Dwight Powell, she goes out with him, telling him her name is Evelyn Kittredge. He tells her a strange story, then she really thinks he is the murderer. When he founds out her real name they talkabout Dorothy and her ‘suicide’. He tells her he didn’t kill her and she believes him. He tells her that he has an address of another man in his apartment. Then Bud i!
s in the apartment and kills Dwight. When Ellen finds Bud Corliss with Dwight’s dead body he says to her Dwight was Dorothy’s murderer and wanted to kill her too, but was killed by his own gun when Bud attacked him. Later Budconfesses to Ellen why and how he killed Dorothy. Then he shoots her behind a closed restaurant in the country. After a few months, Bud decides to contact Marion Kingship. He writes down everything he knows about her from his conversations with Dorothy and Ellen.

Part 3: Marion

When her sisters left home, Marion, who works for an advertising agency, rents an apartment and furnishes it withgreat care. One morning Bud Corliss rings her up, saying he has a book he borrowed from Ellen. After that they get a relationship. Her father is not happy about her relationship with Bud Corliss. Marion and Bud plan to marry in December. Bud now works for the Kingship Corporation. Gordon Gant suspect Bud. He thinks Bud killed both Dorothy and Ellen. He found out a lot of things. Then he has a lot...