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 FromBrazil. 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 hadgot 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’srich 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 themarriage 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 sistercommitted 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...