Bokrecension: a kiss before dying av Ira Levin

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A kiss before dying
Ira Levin

He had wanted to marry her but now she was pregnant, and he was sure of that her very rich father wouldn''''t give them any money, because of the baby in her stomach. He didn''''t know what to do, because he didn''''t want to marry Dorothy. They wouldn''''t make, they were young, they went to college and he was poor.
Dorothy, on the other hand was sure of that they would make it. She would like to marry him and she wanted the baby.
He made a plan where he promised to marry her if the pills he gave her didn''''t work. Pills that would kill the baby.
Infact these pills were deadly, but he became so desperate over the situation that he planned to take Dorothys life.
Dorothy did never take the pills, lied and told him they didn''''t work.
Of course he understood, if she had been taken the pills she should have been dead.
So he played the game and pretending that he would marry her.
The same day as the secret wedding, they didn''''t tell anyone about it, he killed her. Shoved her off a roof.
Everyone thought it was suicide.
Except Dorothys sister, Ellen. She didn''''t know about him but she had some reasons to believe that her sister didn''''t commit suicide.

A while after Dorothys death Ellen went down to Dorothys "collegetown". Her good friend, Bud tols her not to go but Ellen really wanted to find out what happened to her sister.
She found a guy there who matched perfectly in the discription Dorothy had been giving her about her fiancé when she was still alive.
Ellen went out with the guy and after a while she dropped the bomb. He denied, of course. He had been a friend of Dorothy, but not her fiancé. He had also been away on a trip during Dorothys death and he had argument for that.
Ellen continued to spend some time with the guy, named Dwight, but her friend Bud came and shot Dwight. Bud told Ellen that Dwight was the killer and he had planned to kill Ellen now, Bud came and saved her. What Ellen didn''''t know was that Bud was the real killer of Dorothy and now he killed Ellen too.
The reason, Bud came from a poor family and he wanted to marry some of these sisters, because their father was rich. But Dorothy got pregnant and Bud was afraid that her father wouldn''''t give them any money because of their irresponsibility. So he killed her and met Ellen. Ellen went too curious about Buds murder on Dwight, she wasn''''t convinced about Buds story so she got killed too.

As lucky was, the sisters had a third sister, Marion.
Bud knew everything about Marion, her sisters had told him so much about her. Her interests, her personaliy, almost everything.
Bud searched up Marion and told her that he had been a good friend to Ellen and he really wanted to meet Marion.
They met and Marion became in love. Bud knew all her interests so he could only pretend he also enjoyed that things.
They were planning a marriage, but Marions father got in contact with a man who had met Ellen on her detectivetrip. He was sure of that Bud was the killer of both the sisters and Dwight. Marions father and this man, called Mr Gant made some detective job and it turned out that Bud was the killer.
They put him to the wall. He denied and he became really nervous. Mr Gant and Marions father were sure of what they knew so they tried to forse him to admit, or else they would kill him. They had tricked Bud up a platform and now they were threating him to death. Everything were clear. Bud had planned to marry one of these sisters because of their fath...