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

Short stories

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

Filmography

Prizes and awards

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

References

  1. "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  2. "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". BFI. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2018.


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