FLOWER, Pat Estate

Pat Flower born in Kent in 1914, and emigrated to Australia in 1928. She published fifteen crime novels between 1958-76 including Wax Flowers for Gloria (1958), Hell for Heather (1962) and Shadow Show (1976). She worked for the New Theatre League, was a copywriter, and also wrote for radio, TV and film.  Her novel Fiends of the Family was dramatised by ABC TV and won an Awgie award. Her early novels with Inspector Swinton have been compared to Maigret, but her later works are perhaps the best psychothrillers produced in Australia. She committed suicide in 1977.