NOT Helen Simpson short story writer, born 1959. 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. She joined the 1931 Detection Club, and wrote a chapter for Ask a Policeman 1933. Works: Novels: Acquittal (1925) The Baseless Fabric (1925) Cups, Wands and Swords (1927) Mumbudget (1928) The Desolate House (1929) Enter Sir John (1929)(with Clemence Dane)-filmed as Murder! (1930) by Alfred Hitchcock Printer's Devil (1930)(with Clemence Dane) Vantage Striker (1931) Boomerang (1932), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Re-enter Sir John (1932)(with Clemence Dane) The Woman on the Beast (1933) The Spanish Marriage (1933)(with Clemence Dane) Henry VIII (1934)(with Clemence Dane) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1935, produced as a film) The Female Felon (1935) Under Capricorn (1937, produced as a film in 1949) A Woman Among Wild Men (1938)(with Clemence Dane) Maid No More (1940) Plays: Masks (1921) A Man of His Time (1923) The Women's Comedy (1926) Pan in Pimlico (1926) Poetry: Philosophies in Little (1921) Other: The Happy Housewife (1934) Translation: A selection from Louis-Sebastian Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris under the title 'The Waiting City' (1933).