by Vladimir Nabokov. Sarah Weinman's 2018 book The Real Lolita deals with the Horner case and also alleges that Horner's ordeal inspired Lolita. Although Nabokov had already used the same basic idea—that of a child molester and his victim booking into a hotel as father and daughter—in his then unpublished 1939 work Volshebnik (Волшебник), it is still possible that he drew on the details of the Horner case in writing Lolita. An English translation of Volshebnik was published in 1985 as The Enchanter. Nabokov explicitly mentions the Horner case in Chapter 33, Part II of Lolita'': "Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948?" See also List of kidnappings Further reading References 1937 births 1940s missing person cases 1952 deaths Child sexual abuse in the United States Formerly missing people Incidents of violence against girls Kidnapped American children Missing person cases in New Jersey Rapes in the United States Road incident deaths in New Jersey