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1950 novel

The Tall Headlines
First edition (US)
Author	Audrey Erskine Lindop
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Heinemann (UK) Macmillan (US)
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Tall Headlines is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. A middle-class British family are lest devastated and divided when the eldest son is arrested and hanged for murder.

In 1952 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Terence Young and starring Mai Zetterling.

References

Vinson p.253
Goble p.287

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.

v t e Works by Audrey Erskine Lindop
Novels	In Me My Enemy (1948) Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948) The Tall Headlines (1950) The Singer Not the Song (1953) I Thank a Fool (1958) Nicola (1959) The Way to the Lantern (1961) I Start Counting (1966) Sight Unseen (1969) Journey Into Stone (1972) The Self-Appointed Saint (1975)
Screenwriter	Blanche Fury (1948) Tall Headlines (1952) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) Danger on Dartmoor (1980)
Story by film	The Singer Not the Song (1961) I Thank a Fool (1962) I Start Counting (1970)

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