J. H. Wallis

J. H. Wallis was a writer whose 1942 best-selling book Once Off Guard was made into a film, The Woman in the Window, directed by Fritz Lang.

Biography

James Harold Wallis was born in Iowa and educated at Yale. He was a newspaperman in Iowa, later writing full-time in New York.

Personal life

Wallis' daughter, Jane O’Neil Wallis Burrell, was the first CIA employee to die on the job.

Works

This list is incomplete.Murder by Formula The Capital City Mystery The Servant of Death Cries in the Night The Mystery of Vaucluse Murder Mansion

''The Niece of Abraham Pein''