A KISS BEFORE DYING

Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her first year of university. They are to be married and her life will be blissful, but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiancé's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the young man provides his bride-to-be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby, but perhaps no Dorothy either. The novel was Levin's first which earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for First Best Novel. It is now regarded as a Modern classic here in 275 page paperback reprint with an introduction by Chelsea Cain. It as embraced on publication as a 'crime-thriller masterpiece'.