J. H. Wallis Explained

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.^[1]

Personal life

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

Works

This list is incomplete.

• Book:
• Book:
• 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)
• Book:
• The Niece of Abraham Pein (1943)

Further reading

• Web site: WALLIS, James Harold . Encyclopedia Dubuque . 8 January 2023 -->.
• News: W. . A. . At the Palace . . 30 September 1949.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stephensen-Payne . Phil . Biographical Notes: Page 112 . The General Fiction Magazine Index . 8 January 2023.
2. Web site: The Mystery of Jane Wallis Burrell: The First CIA Officer To Die in the Agency’s Service . Small Wars Journal . 8 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160802173415/http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-mystery-of-jane-wallis-burrell-the-first-cia-officer-to-die-in-the-agency%E2%80%99s-service . 2016-08-02.
3. News: Announce Wedding Of Jane O'Neil Wallis . 8 January 2023 . Scarsdale Inquirer . HRVH Historical Newspapers . 28 July 1933.
4. News: Aven . Andrea Wallis . My Aunt, The Spy . 8 January 2023 . Edmond Outlook . 31 August 2017 . Edmond, Oklahoma.
5. Web site: From the archives- The legacy of Jane O’Neil Wallis ’33 . The Sophian . . 8 January 2023.