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How much did a real-life sex crime inspire Nabokov's Lolita? Probably not as much as this true crime scribe wants you to believe. But that doesn’t mean her linking of a disturbing detective story & a literary masterpiece isn’t a tantalizing page-turner. In 1948, Sally Horner, 11, was abducted by a pedophile & whisked across state lines, sorta parallel to Humbert Humbert’s fictional flight. Did Nabokov draw on the lurid case? His denials ring false, but Weinman’s charges that he “pilfered” & “strip-mined” the story feel excessive. Satisfying for both the crime blotter & the bookshelf.