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Year of first publication: 1954 in Great Britain
Edition used: This book is published in 1970
Number of pages: 239

2. The summary
The book consists of three parts: Dorothy, Ellen and Marion. These are three sisters.
In the first part, Dorothy Kingship is the main character. She has a rich father, Leo, and her boyfriend Bud (Burton) Corliss is about her money. Dorothy tells Bud that she is pregnant, and Bud knows that he never gets her money if her father finds out, so he says that he wants to marry her. He takes her to the roof of the Marriage License Bureau and pushes her from the building. Because he has let her translate a Spanish line which reads: ‘Darling, I hope you will forgive me for the unhappiness that I will cause. There is nothing else that I can do’, and send it to Ellen, everybody thinks its suicide.
Part two. Ellen goes to Blue River, because she doesn’t believe Dorothy killed herself. She realizes that the Municipal Building, were Dorothy falls off, is also a marriage license bureau. She thinks Dorothy went there to get married, so she wants to find Dorothy’s boyfriend. She suspects Dwight Powell and Gordon Grant, because they are blond and handsome and Dorothy wrote that to Ellen. Ellen goes to Gordon Grant and he swears he didn’t kill her. She writes to Bud Corliss that Dwight Powell must be the man that she is looking for. She doesn’t talk about Gordon Grant. She goes out with Dwight Powell and she says her name is Evelyn Kittredge. When they are together he says strange things about women and she really thinks he’s the murder. When he finds out her real name, he tells her he didn’t kill Dorothy and she believes him. He says he has an address of another man, who had known Dorothy, in his apartment. But when they’re in the apartment, Bud is also there. He kills Dwight when he’s upstairs. When Dorothy finds Bud with Dwight’s body, he says that Dwight has killed Dorothy and that he also wanted to kill her, but that he was attack by his own gun. Later Bud tells Ellen that he killed Dorothy and Dwight and then he shoots her.
After a few months he decides to contact Marion Kingship.
Part three. One morning Bud rings up Marion and he says he has a book he borrowed from Ellen. They meet, get a relationship and plan to...








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