A Kiss Before Dying

　　自幼受貧窮所苦的他，是個金髮碧眼、既聰明又英俊的年輕人，從軍中退役之後，處心積慮的選擇了中西部一所富家子弟雲集的大學就讀，意圖藉婚姻之助躋身豪門；如今，他的完美計畫卻因為女友桃樂絲懷孕並且拒絕墮胎而受阻。他不如何是好，但心靈深處的那隱伏著的邪惡靈魂竟受到挑逗，使他一步步向撒旦臣服......

★本書中文版《死前之吻》由遠流出版

　　A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, 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, sex appeal, 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. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.