Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920,

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– 7 November 1986,

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) was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970. She was married to the writer Dudley Leslie with whom she sometimes collaborated. Her novel '' I Start Counting'' won the

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in 1967, and was made into a film starring

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. Other novels which have been filmed are '' I Thank a Fool'' and ''

The Singer Not the Song ''The Singer Not the Song'' is a 1961 British drama film based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Audrey Erskine Lindop that was directed by Roy Ward Baker and filmed in Spain. It stars Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, and Mylène Demongeot. Pl ...

''.

Selected novels

* ''In Me My Enemy'' (1948) * '' Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry'' (1948) * ''

The Tall Headlines ''The Tall Headlines'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by Terence Young and starring André Morell, Flora Robson, Michael Denison, Peter Burton, Sid James and Dennis Price. It was shot at Walton Studios outside London. In the United Stat ...

'' (1950) * ''

'' (1953) (AKA ''The Bandit and the Priest'') * ''Details of Jeremy Stretton'' (1955) * ''The Outer Ring'' (1955) (AKA ''The Tormented'') * ''The Judas Figures'' (1956) * ''Mist Over Talla'' (1957) *'' I Thank a Fool'' (1958) * '' Nicola'' (1959) *'' The Way to the Lantern'' (1961) *'' I Start Counting'' (1966) *''The Adventures of the Wuffle'' (1968) (Written with William Stobbs) *'' Sight Unseen'' (1969) *'' Journey Into Stone'' (1972) *''Out of the Whirlwind'' (1972) *''The Self-Appointed Saint'' (1975)

Short stories

* ''As One Lady to Another'' (1954), published in the London Evening News * ''Heirs Unapparent'' (1954), published in the London Evening News

Filmography

* ''

Blanche Fury ''Blanche Fury'' is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was adapted from a 1939 novel of the same title by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era Englan ...

'' (1948) - screenwriter * ''Tall Headlines'' (1952) - screenwriter, story by * ''

The Rough and the Smooth ''The Rough and the Smooth'' (alternative title: ''Portrait of a Sinner'') is a 1959 British drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Natasha Parry. The screenplay concerns an archaeolog ...

'' (1959) - screenwriter * ''

'' (1961) - story by * '' I Thank a Fool'' (1962) - story by * '' I Start Counting'' (1970) - story by * ''

Danger on Dartmoor ''Danger on Dartmoor'' is a 1980 British children's drama film directed by David Eady and starring Marcus Evans, Simon Henderson, Debby Salter, Barry Foster and Patricia Hayes. Plot Children lost in a fog on Dartmoor face dangers including a s ...

'' (1980) - screenwriter, story by

Prizes and awards

* Grand Prize of Crime Fiction for the thriller ''Dash Through The Bill''

References

External links

* English crime fiction writers 1920 births 1986 deaths Writers from London 20th-century English novelists English women novelists 20th-century English women writers People from the Isle of Wight {{England-writer-stub