The Tall Headlines (novel)

The Tall Headlines
First edition (US)
AuthorAudrey Erskine Lindop
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherHeinemann (UK)
Macmillan (US)
Publication date
1950
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Tall Headlines is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop.[1] 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Vinson p.253
  2. ^ 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.


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