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I Start Counting (novel)

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I Start Counting
First edition
AuthorAudrey Erskine Lindop
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins (UK)
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
1966
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

I Start Counting is a 1966 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop.[1] 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.[2] Others have been I Thank a Fool, and The Singer Not the Song.

References

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  1. ^ Vinson p.253
  2. ^ Goble p.287

Bibliography

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