Bunny Lake Is Missing - (Femmes Fatales) by Evelyn Piper (Paperback)

About the Book

This 1957 Hitchcock-like thriller about a lost child and a mother depicted as mad is..."a super psychological story of terror and suspense." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Book Synopsis

This 1957 Hitchcock-like thriller about a lost child and a mother depicted as mad is..."a super psychological story of terror and suspense." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review Quotes

Praise for Bunny Lake is Missing"A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake Is Missing is a classic thriller--a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Prime pulp--pure pleasure." --Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault

"A beautiful job . . . frantic scenes of action, contagious terror and near hysteria." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Evelyn Piper . . . master of taut and impelling writing, [presents] a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive." --Oakland Tribune

"The distraught, gusty, and hip mother I played in Bunny Lake Is Missing is my all-time favorite role." --Carol Lynley

Praise for Bunny Lake is Missing"A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake Is Missing is a classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Prime pulp--pure pleasure." --Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault

"A beautiful job . . . frantic scenes of action, contagious terror and near hysteria." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Evelyn Piper . . . master of taut and impelling writing, [presents] a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive." --Oakland Tribune

"The distraught, gusty, and hip mother I played in Bunny Lake Is Missing is my all-time favorite role." --Carol Lynley

About the Author

Evelyn Piper was the pseudonym of Merriam Modell (1908-1994). After graduating from Cornell in the late 1920s, Modell worked as a model, as a secretary for a harmonica quartet and lived in Germany for a time. She published short stories in The New Yorker, starting in 1941, and her novels include The Lady and Her Doctor (1956), Hanno's Doll (1961), and The Nanny (1964).