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Author Description <b>NOT</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55708.Helen_Simpson" title="Helen Simpson" rel="nofollow noopener">Helen Simpson</a> short story writer, born 1959. <br /><br />Helen Simpson was an Australian-born writer, who lived in England from the age of 16. She studied music at Oxford, before becoming a novelist, a writer of historical biography, a radio broadcaster and a politician. <br /><br />She joined the 1931 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/93130.Detection_Club" title="Detection Club" rel="nofollow noopener">Detection Club</a>, and wrote a chapter for <i>Ask a Policeman</i> 1933.<br /><br /><b>Works:</b><br /><br /><b>Novels:</b><br /><br />Acquittal (1925)<br />The Baseless Fabric (1925)<br />Cups, Wands and Swords (1927)<br />Mumbudget (1928)<br />The Desolate House (1929)<br />Enter Sir John (1929)(with Clemence Dane)-filmed as Murder! (1930) by Alfred Hitchcock<br />Printer's Devil (1930)(with Clemence Dane)<br />Vantage Striker (1931)<br />Boomerang (1932), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize<br />Re-enter Sir John (1932)(with Clemence Dane)<br />The Woman on the Beast (1933)<br />The Spanish Marriage (1933)(with Clemence Dane)<br />Henry VIII (1934)(with Clemence Dane)<br />Saraband for Dead Lovers (1935, produced as a film)<br />The Female Felon (1935)<br />Under Capricorn (1937, produced as a film in 1949)<br />A Woman Among Wild Men (1938)(with Clemence Dane)<br />Maid No More (1940)<br /><br /><b>Plays:</b><br />Masks (1921)<br />A Man of His Time (1923)<br />The Women's Comedy (1926)<br />Pan in Pimlico (1926)<br /><br /><b>Poetry:</b><br />Philosophies in Little (1921)<br /><br /><b>Other:</b><br />The Happy Housewife (1934)<br /><br /><b>Translation:</b><br />A selection from Louis-Sebastian Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris under the title 'The Waiting City' (1933).

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