J. H. Wallis

J. H. Wallis (1885-1958) was a writer whose 1942 best-selling book Once Off Guard (later published as The Woman in the Window) was made into a film, The Woman in the Window (1944), 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 (1931)
• The Capital City Mystery (1932)
• The Servant of Death (1932)
• Cries in the Night (1933)
• The Mystery of Vaucluse (1933)
• Murder Mansion (1934)
• The Niece of Abraham Pein (1943)

References

Further reading

External links

• Review of Once Off Guard Includes a brief biography of Wallis.