She felt so very happy because someone loved her and paid attention to her for the first time in her life. Soon, she was totally wrapped up by his gentle and cultivated manners. He wrote everything down he knew about Marion on a piece of paper and learned it by heart, he'd get in touch with her by starting a conversation about one of these things. He couldn't afford anything to go wrong this time. Now there was one left to go, he had to be very careful. This time he didn't try to obscure the murder, but took care of covering up his tracks so nobody finds out it was he. When Bud begins to smell a rat, he kills Ellen too. Ellen goes on with her investigation and she informs him and her boyfriend Burton Corliss (the killer!) all the progress she has made. At first she thinks Gordon Gant is Dorothy's murderer, but later it appears he is not, Gordon and Ellen become good friends. He made it look like suicide and everybody fell into his trap, exept Ellen and Gordon Gant.Įllen is playing detective to expose the killer. He puts a well-considered plan together and murders her. He meets Dorothy at the University, everything seems to work out, but then she gets pregnant and that means no money. Because his father was a looser, Bud's mother placed all her hopes on her son.īud wants his mother to be proud of him and the best and easiest way to get there is marrying a rich girl. In spite of the lack of money, Bud always achieved very good. Bud Corliss is a young man who comes from a poor family. Further on in the story the author also lets you know the thoughts of the other key-characters, like Ellen and Dorothy. At the beginning the story is written from the murderers sight, Ira lets you know what he thinks and how he feels about the situation, but his name isn't mentioned untill Dwight Powell reads the letter Ellen wrote to her boyfriend Bud Corliss. The book is divided into three parts, called: Dorothy, Ellen and Marion. In the third and final part Bud goes after Marion, Kingship's last living daughter, she is his last and only chance to get some of Kingship's fortune. Then you will discover finally the name of the murderer, who was Ellen's boyfriend at that moment, but he had to kill her too, because she knew that he was the killer. In the second part Ellen is going to inquire into her sister's dead and she finds out it was murder. You already know that in the first part Dorothy gets killed, but the killer makes it look like a suicide. The book is divided into three parts, named Dorothy, Ellen and Marion like Kingship's daughter. Because Dorothy told him that her father would get mad if he knew she was pregnant. First he has a relationship with Dorothy, the youngest daughter, he wants to marry her to get the money, but she gets pregnant, that is why he kills her.

It is a story about a man who is after the money of Leo Kingship, the owner of Kingship Copper Inc., who has three daughters.

A kiss before dying book summary