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Audrey Erskine Lindop

English writer (1920–1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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.

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Selected novels

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Short stories

  • 'Heirs Unapparent'. London Evening News, 16 March 1954
  • 'As One Lady to Another'. London Evening News, 22 October 1954

Filmography

Prizes and awards

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

References

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