Patricia Bernadette Carlon (9 January 1927 - 29 July 2002) was an Australian crime fiction writer whose most notable works are fourteen suspenseful novels published between 1961 and 1970.
She sometimes used the pen names Patricia Bernard and Barbara Christie.
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.
[4] Her income source from her late teens onwards was writing articles and short stories for magazines as well as her novels.
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.