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Audrey Erskine Lindop

オードリー・アースキン・リンドップ

Ōdorī Ēsukin Rindoppu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1920-12-26 （London）
Died
1986-11-07 （Isle of Wight） age 65
Nationality
English, British
Languages
English
Residence History
London → Isle of Wight

Career

Occupations
writer, novelist, screenwriter
Active Years
1948-1986

Awards

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
1967
Work: I Start Counting
Organization: Association des Écrivains Détectives et de Polars
Result: Winner
Grand Prize of Crime Fiction
Work: Dash Through The Bill
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

I Start Counting

1966 crime fiction

A thriller novel about a girl's psyche.

psychological themescrime
Adaptations
  • [film] I Start Counting (1970)

I Thank a Fool

1958 novel

Story of sin and redemption.

redemptionmorality
Adaptations
  • [film] I Thank a Fool (1962)

The Singer Not the Song

1953 novel

Story set in Mexico.

loveconflict
Adaptations
  • [film] The Singer Not the Song (1961)

The Tall Headlines

1950 novel

Story of a girl during wartime.

waryouth
Adaptations
  • [film] The Tall Headlines (1952)

Bibliography

  • In Me My Enemy (1948)
  • Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948)
  • The Tall Headlines (1950)
  • The Singer Not the Song (1953)
  • Details of Jeremy Stretton (1955)
  • The Outer Ring (1955)
  • 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)
  • Sight Unseen (1969)
  • Journey Into Stone (1972)
  • Out of the Whirlwind (1972)
  • The Self-Appointed Saint (1975)

Adaptations

  • Blanche Fury (1948) - screenwriter
  • The Tall Headlines (1952) - screenwriter, story
  • The Rough and the Smooth (1959) - screenwriter
  • The Singer Not the Song (1961) - story
  • I Thank a Fool (1962) - story
  • I Start Counting (1970) - story
  • Danger on Dartmoor (1980) - screenwriter, story

Style & Themes

Literary Style
various forms of fiction including crime, mainstream and historical

Legacy

English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical.

Trivia

  • Married to writer Dudley Leslie, with whom she sometimes collaborated.