Helen MacInnes

Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907, Glasgow – September 30, 1985, New York City) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.

Among her works are:

* "Above Suspicion" (1939) made into a film of the same name.
* "Triple Threat" (1940)
*"Assignment in Brittany" (1942) made into a film of the same name
*"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.