''The Bait'' is a

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about

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Detective Tracy Fleming, who is out to catch a

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preying on women in

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. Filmed in 1971 and released in 1973, it stars

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. The film was based on former police officer Dorothy Uhnak's first novel, also titled ''The Bait'', which won the MWA's

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for Best First Novel. She was reportedly embarrassed over the liberties taken with her work by this film. The film itself was the pilot for an unlaunched weekly TV series. ''The Ledger'', a later book by Ms. Uhnak featuring the same character,

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Detective Christie Opara, was adapted into the TV-film ''

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'' It also took liberties with the source material, but was, nonetheless, successfully turned into a TV series the following season.

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