Ira Levin Boeken

A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.

Rosemary en Guy Woodehouse, pasgetrouwd en dolgelukkig, betrekken een appartement in een fraai oud gebouw in New York. Hutch, een oudere vriend, weet hun echter te vertellen dat het pand een slechte naam heeft omdat er in het verleden lugubere dingen gebeurd zijn. Maar Rosemary en Guy, jong en optimistisch, leggen deze onheilspellende waarschuwing naast zich neer en maken kennis met hun buren, een vriendelijk, wat ouder echtpaar. Hun geluk is compleet als Rosemary in verwachting raakt. Totdat Rosemary ontdekt dat er aan de vriendelijkheid van de buren een vreemd luchtje zit. Ze maakt zich ernstig zorgen over het welzijn van haar baby. Maar niemand, zelfs Guy niet, gelooft haar en zo raakt ze steeds meer geïsoleerd...

This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

Focusing on non-traditional students in higher education institutions, this new book from renowned scholar John Levin examines the extent to which community college students receive justice both within their institution and as an outcome of their education.

It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.

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