A Kiss Before Dying
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Kiss Before Dying” is a dark, tense crime novel, the 1954 Edgar winner that launched Ira Levin as a novelist. A murder lies at its core, and the menace never lifts in a book of under three hundred pages. Some readers find the story rather predictable. For anyone curious about Levin’s beginnings, this is the place to look.
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About the book
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin. It won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 54 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.4 | 5 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 49 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Kiss Before Dying?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 86% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
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