1.
Author: Ira Levin
Title: A kiss before dying
Year and place of publication: 1991, New York: Simon and Schuster
Number of pages: 300

2a
The murderer, Burton (Bud) Corliss is a poor student who wants to marry a rich heiress. He pretends to love his victims (the daughters of a very rich Indus-trial) before he kills them.

2b
The story begins with Dorothy Kingship telling her friend that she is pregnant. She wants to marry him but Bud does not want to have a child and a wife so he kills her. The murder looks like suicide.
Ellen Kingship investigates her sisters death, because she does not believe that her sister committed suicide. She and Dwight Powell (who was a friend of Dorothy) knew too much and therefore Bud Corliss -he is her boyfriend now- kills them both.
Bud gets into a relationship with Marion Kingship. She does not suspect a thing and they tend to get married. Then Gordon Gant -who was a friend of Ellen- investigates the murder of Ellen, because the police do not believe it is coincidence. He investigates the murders with the father of the murdered daughters, because he Gordon has proof that Bud killed both sisters.
When Leo (and Gordon) shows Bud his Copper smelter, Bud finds his death by slipping of the catwalk after he confessed under high press.

2c.
The first scene:
Bud and Dorothy are arguing about what the plans are for the future, because she is pregnant.
Going away, have a child, marry or commit abortion?

The last scene:
Bud confessed, under high press by Leo and Gordon, and slips on something wet, he falls down and died. Leo stays in his factory and Gordon takes Marion home. When they arrive at home Bud’s mom is waiting in the living room and asks: “Where is Bud?”

3.
A photography from part 1:
A ventilator cap creaked. After a minute, he took his arm from her waist and put his hand over hers, which gripped the stone between them. He braced his other hand on the coping and eased himself down from the parapet. Before she could do likewise he swung around and was facing her, his waist against her knees, his hands covering both of hers. He smiled at her and she smiled back. His gaze dropped to her stomach. “Little mother”, he said. She chuckled. His hands moved to her knees, cupped them, his fingertips caressing under the hem of her skirt.
“We’d better be going, hadn’t we, darling?”
“In a minute, baby. We still have time.”
His eyes caught hers, held them, as his hands descended and moved behind to rest curving on the slope of her calves. At the periphery of his field of vision he could make out her white-gloved hands; they still clasped the...








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