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)
 * Murder Mansion (1934)
 * The Niece of Abraham Pein (1943)
 * The Niece of Abraham Pein (1943)