The Tall Headlines (novel)

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The Tall Headlines
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First edition (US)
Author Audrey Erskine Lindop
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Heinemann (UK)
Macmillan (US)
Publication date
1950
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]

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References

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

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