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''