Audrey Erskine Lindop Explained

Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920, London  - 7 November 1986, Isle of Wight) was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970.^[1] 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 (1948)
• Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948)
• The Tall Headlines (1950)
• The Singer Not the Song (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 (1948) - screenwriter
• Tall Headlines (1952) - screenwriter, story by
• The Rough and the Smooth (1959) - screenwriter
• The Singer Not the Song (1961) - story by
• I Thank a Fool (1962) - story by
• I Start Counting (1970) - story by
• Danger on Dartmoor (1980) - screenwriter, story by^[2]

Prizes and awards

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Audrey Erskine-Lindop. 2013-05-07.
2. News: Audrey Erskine-Lindop. https://web.archive.org/web/20210227015211/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa193597. dead. 27 February 2021. BFI. 2018-11-10. en.