I Start Counting (novel) - Misplaced Pages

1966 novel

I Start Counting
First edition
Author	Audrey Erskine Lindop
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Collins (UK) Doubleday (US)
Publication date	1966
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

I Start Counting is a 1966 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. With a serial strangler on the loose in her small English town, a teenage girl begins to suspect who it is.

In 1970 it was another of Lindop's novels which was adapted into a film of the same title directed by David Greene and starring Jenny Agutter and Simon Ward. Others have been I Thank a Fool, and The Singer Not the Song.

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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