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Patricia Carlon (1927 — 2002) was an Australian crime fiction writer whose most notable works are fourteen suspenseful novels published between 1961 and 1970. She was rediscovered in the 1990s, after The Whispering Wall (1969) and The Souvenir (1970) were republished as part of a series of Australian Classic Crime. These and other novels have subsequently been reissued in the United States and Australia.

Miss Carlon lived all her life with, or next door to, her parents. Writing articles and short stories for magazines as well as her novels, was her income source from her late teens onwards. She refused all interviews. After her death it became known that she had been profoundly deaf since the age of 11: something even her publishers had been unware of, as she always communicated with them by letter. Her deafness has since been related to themes and plots in her novels, in which people in possession of the truth about a crime are often isolated and in peril, either through being physically trapped, or because they are unable make others believe them.

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