Estelle Thompson


Estelle May Thompson was an Australian crime fiction writer, author of 16 novels and one biographical memoir. Her crime thrillers have been published worldwide in hardcover and paperback, most also in large print editions, Braille and/or as audio cassettes. Five have been translated.

Life

Thompson was born 9 October 1930 in Gympie, Queensland to Andrew Thompson, a dairy farmer of Irish descent, and his wife Lillias May. She said that she wrote in her spare time whilst living on the family farm at Nambour near Brisbane.
Three of Thompson's novels where nominated for the Miles Franklin Literary Award: The Lawyer and the Carpenter in 1963; The Edge of Nowhere in 1965; and The Wrong Saturday in 1968.
Thompson's sixth novel, Find a Crooked Sixpence, was serialised in The Australian Women's Weekly.
Thompson's death on 28 May 2003 was reported in the Brisbane Courier Mail as "late of Dulong".

Publications

Was du nicht weisst, macht dich nicht tot, Scherz, 1982,
Le verger de la peur : roman, Les Editions Mondiales, 1962
De fatale zaterdag, translated into Dutch by J. C. Torringa-Timmer, Davidsfond, 1974,
Lourd de menaces, translated into French by C. Wourgaft, Gallimard, 1970
Tödlicher Hass : Roman, Wilhelm Heyne, 1975,
Eine feine Familie, translated into German by Ingrid Herrmann, Scherz, 1982,
Der blinde Jager, Scherz, 1982,