This is one of my ancient paperbacks that I first completed on We 8/11/93 and I refinished Mo 1/16/23.
There was an interesting note on the flyleaf. It said that the night that I first finished the novel I rented and watched the movie from Thrifty Video. I can't remember where Thrifty Video was located. Maybe near the old Wilkerson's Repair at Monroe and Chatham?
I loved the book, but only 'liked' the ending. I expected something a little more 'unexpected'.
A young man is obsessed with becoming rich and he sees that the easiest way would be to marry a woman from a 'well connected' family. He becomes involved with a wealthy young woman, but he gets her pregnant and he immediately realizes that her father will not continue to support her if she is 'with child' before the wedding.
His solution is to kill his bride and make it look like a suicide. This works and then he looks to her other sister to try the same plan.
***To get his bride to write a suicide note was a tough problem and he provides an interesting solution. He writes the suicide letter in Spanish and says that he needs it translated to English.
A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews and an Edgar Award, it also set a new standard in the art of psychological suspense. It tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing―not even murder―to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder.
The final showdown at the copper smelter was kind of a letdown. I guess it was more cinematic.
***The film is no longer at Netflix disc and it is not available on any streaming service.
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