VERA CASPARY is the author of many books, plays, and screenplays. Her film credits include The Blue Gardenia and A Letter to Three Wives.

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING

Evelyn Piper

Afterword by Maria Dibattista

eISBN: 9781558617759 | ISBN: 9781558614741

Blanche Lake, a young mother, arrives to pick up her daughter at nursery school. But Bunny Lake has vanished, and soon everyone suspects that she is merely a figment of her mother’s female imagination. Searching desperately for her daughter, with no help from the police, Blanche needs every trick in the book to navigate a world that distrusts and disowns her. This psychological thriller was made into a classic motion picture in 1965 by Otto Preminger.

“The distraught, gutsy, and hip mother I played in Bunny Lake Is Missing is my all-time favorite role.”

—Carol Lynley

“A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake is Missing is a classic thriller—a riveting revisit to the dark side of the 50s, 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 was the pseudonym of Merriam Modell (1908–1994), whose novels include The Lady and Her Doctor, Hanno’s Doll, and The Nanny (1965), which was made into a film starring Bette Davis.

NOW, VOYAGER

Olive Higgins Prouty

Afterword by Judith Mayne

eISBN: 9781558616332 | ISBN: 9781558614765

A soaring romance and one of the greatest makeover stories in literature, Now, Voyager, first enthralled readers in 1941 and became a screen phenomenon the following year. Bette Davis triumphantly portrayed heroine Charlotte Vale, the shy, dowdy Boston heiress who blossoms into a defiant, sexually liberated woman. After a nervous breakdown releases her from the tyranny of her mother and blueblood society, Charlotte embarks on an ocean cruise where her fabulous new wardrobe and burgeoning charm lead to a love affair with a married man. Charlotte’s transformation has just begun. . . .

“At last we have the moon and the stars: at last, that is, the public can read the novel on which one of Hollywood’s most stirring melodramas is based.”

—Tania Modleski, author of Loving With a Vengeance

“Like the film it inspired, Olive Higgins Prouty’s Now, Voyager is as striking for the conventions it bucks as for the ones it embraces: a vivid reminder of a time when people crossed the ocean in liners and wore hats, and a hymn to an American ideal of social, moral, and emotional independence.”

—David Leavitt, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much

OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY (1882–1974) is the author of many books including Stella Dallas (1923), which was adapted into three films and a long-running radio serial. Later in her life, Prouty became patron and mentor to Sylvia Plath, and the inspiration for Philomena Guinea, the meddlesome character in Plath’s The Bell Jar.

THE G-STRING MURDERS

Gypsy Rose Lee

Afterword by Rachel Shteir

eISBN: 9781558617612 | ISBN: 9781558615038