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.

James Harold Wallis was born in Iowa and educated at Yale. He was a newspaperman in Iowa, later writing full-time in New York.^[1]

Wallis' daughter, Jane O’Neil Wallis Burrell, was the first CIA employee to die on the job.^[2][3][4][5]

This list is incomplete.

• Youth [poems]. The Gorham Press. 1907.
• The Testament of William Windune: And Other Poems. Yale University Press. 1916.
• 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)
• Once Off Guard. E.P. Dutton. 1942.
• The Niece of Abraham Pein (1943)

• "WALLIS, James Harold". Encyclopedia Dubuque.
• W., A. (30 September 1949). "At the Palace". The New York Times.

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

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