Language English Originally published 1957 Genre Novel | Publication date 1957 Country United States of America | |
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Adaptations Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) Publishers Harper (US), Harvill Secker (UK) Similar The Innocent, The Plot, The motive, The Naked Murderer, The Stand‑In | ||
Bunny Lake Is Missing is a 1957 novel by Merriam Modell (writing as Evelyn Piper) set in New York City.
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Plot introduction
Blanche Lake, a 21-year-old single mother, wants to collect her three-year-old daughter Bunny from her first day at day care but finds that she is not there. Over the course of the ensuing night, she tries everything in her power to find out what has happened to her. Before daybreak, she thinks she knows where Bunny is.
The plot takes place all within the space of 24 hours.
Adaptations
The novel was adapted as a film in 1965, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt and Noël Coward. The locale was changed from New York to London and the ending was changed.
A remake was planned in 2009 but has not materialized.
A stage production, adapted by Ken Simon from the novel, played January 4–14, 2012 at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.