Helen Clark MacInnes
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Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7 1907 - September 30 1985), was a Scottish suspense novelist.
She was born in Glasgow, Scotland and graduated from Glasgow University in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.
Among her works are:
- Above Suspicion (1939)
- Triple Threat (1940)
- Assignment in Brittany (1942)
- The Unconquerable (1944), also called While Still We Live
- Horizon (1945)
- Friends and Lovers (1947)
- Rest and be Thankful (1949)
- Neither Five Nor Three (1951)
- I and My True Love (1953)
- Pray for a Brave Heart (1955)
- North from Rome (1958)
- Decision at Delphi (1960)
- The Venetian Affair (1963), made into a film of the same name
- Double Image (1966)
- The Salzburg Connection (1968), made into a film of the same name
- Message from Malaga (1971)
- Snare of the Hunter (1974)
- Agent in Place (1976)
- Home is the Hunter (1976)
- Prelude to Terror (1978)
- The Hidden Target (1980)
- Cloak of Darkness (1982)
- Ride a Pale Horse (1984)
In 1966 she won the Columba Prize for Literature.