Author: Ira Levin
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 marry in December. Gordon Grant goes to Leo Kingship, because he suspects Bud killed Dorothy and Ellen. They go to Marion and tell her everything they know about Bud and she believes them. But they have no evidence that would be accepted by the police. The next day they fly to one of the corporation’s smelters. When they are standing on a forty-foot-high catwalk, Leo and Gordon confront Bud with everything they’ve found out. He panics because he realized that they want him to fall from the catwalk and die in the same way Dorothy did. He slips on the wet catwalk and falls into a vat boiling liquid copper just passing beneath him. Marion, Gordon and Leo return to Kingship’s apartment where Bud’s mother is waiting for them. ‘Where’s Bud?’ she asked. 3. The main Character I think Dorothy is the main character because the whole story is about her. She is blond and has brown eyes. She is very naive and believes everyone, especially Bud. She thinks she will have a fantastic future with Bud and she wants marry him so much that she doesn’t take the pills that Bud gave her.
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