Audrey Erskine Lindop
Audrey Erskine Lindop 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 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1967, and was made into a film starring Jenny Agutter. Other novels which have been filmed are I Thank a Fool and The Singer Not the Song.
Selected novels
In Me My Enemy Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry The Tall Headlines The Singer Not the Song Details of Jeremy Stretton The Outer Ring The Judas Figures Mist Over Talla- I Thank a Fool Nicola
- The Way to the Lantern
- I Start Counting
- The Adventures of the Wuffle
- Sight Unseen
- Journey Into Stone
- Out of the Whirlwind
- ''The Self-Appointed Saint''
Short stories
- 'Heirs Unapparent'. London Evening News, 16 March 1954
- 'As One Lady to Another'. London Evening News, 22 October 1954
Filmography
Blanche Fury - screenwriter- Tall Headlines - screenwriter, story byThe Rough and the Smooth - screenwriterThe Singer Not the Song - story by I Thank a Fool - story byI Start Counting - story byDanger on Dartmoor - screenwriter, story by
Prizes and awards
- Grand Prize of Crime Fiction for the thriller ''Dash Through The Bill''