Helen MacInnes

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1941
  • Latest Book:
    October 1984
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Helen MacInnes

October 7, 1907 ~ September 30, 1985 (77)

Helen MacInnes 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. A librarian, she married Professor Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937 so he could teach classics at Columbia University.

Full Series List in Order

Robert Renwick

1 - Prelude to Terror (Aug-1978)
2 - The Hidden Target (Aug-1980)
3 - Cloak of Darkness (Aug-1982)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Above Suspicion

    “A red rose, a chance phrase, and some spilt cointreau--this was the first link in a chain of events that were to lead Richard and Frances Myles to Nazi-dominated Germany. The young Oxford don and his attactive wife were sent by the British Foreig...

  • Assignment in Brittany

    Evan Matthews, his commanding officer, had been fooled by the Frenchman's resemblance to Hearne. But once Matthews knew the truth, he decided to make good use of it. So Martin Hearne would become Bertrand Corlay, right down to the birthmark and the m...

  • While Still We Live

    Helen MacInnes again demonstrates her unique mastery of the dramatic suspense novel in this superbly plotted thriller about a young English girl whose innocent holiday visit to Poland is suddenly twisted into a nightmare of violence and terror when s...

  • Friends and Lovers

    David Bosworth and Penelope Lorrimer seem to have everything against them. He is a penniless undergraduate at Oxford with a head full of dreams; she is the daughter of a well-to-do Edinburgh family who have great ambitions for her. Nevertheless their...

  • Rest and Be Thankful

    Wealthy Margaret Peel and her companion, Sarah Bly, are on a chauffeur-driven sightseeing tour of the United States when they become lost in the heart of unfamiliar Wyoming. Their first reaction of dismay soon changes when a chance encounter with cow...

  • Neither Five Nor Three

    Nothing in Rona Metford's chic, sophisticated world of publishers, writers, and artists warned her of the sinister web of terror and treason that was slowly winding itself around her. But the insidious evil lurking just beneath the surface of her lov...

  • I and My True Love

    Payton and Sylvia Pleydell were the most respected, brilliant couple in Washington. Theirs seemed a perfect marriage. But Kate Jerold, newly arrived from California, soon saw different. Why was her cousin Sylvia so secretive? And was her husband real...

  • North from Rome

    Attack in Rome... From the quiet street came a woman's cry. It was quick, startled - strangled into silence. A car waited with its nose pointing from the curb - ready to leave. A man and a woman stood rigid... the rigidity of force equally matche...

  • Decision at Delphi

    Kenneth Strang sets out for Sicily and Greece on a seemingly innocent, though fascinating, magazine assignment. But even before his ship sails from New York, the atmosphere becomes charged with sinister omens. In the course of the voyage one myst...



  • Assignment: Suspense (Omnibus) Above Suspicion/Horizon/Assignment in Brittany

    A 3-Novel Omnibus. Above Suspicion Horizon Assignment in Brittany...

  • The Venetian Affair

    Set in the 1960s during the Cold War, this is a captivating espionage adventure from “the queen of spy writers” who has been compared to Graham Greene and Ian Fleming (Sunday Express).   While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American j...

  • Home Is the Hunter

    A New Comedy in Two Acts What really happened on that day in 1177 B.C. when Ulysses finally returned home to Ithaca, after a seventeen-year absence? The curtain [in this two-act play] rises on a rather irritated Ulysses, returning home penniless an...

  • The Double Image

    While carrying out research in Paris, American historian John Craig is surprised when he runs into his old college professor. Sussman is a worried man. A survivor of Auschwitz, he's in shock, having seen and been seen by one of the Nazis who tortured...

  • Pray for a Brave Heart

    Set against the breathtaking mountain backdrop of Switzerland, this novel of international intrigue unfolds the powerful story of a young American's search for a priceless cache of hidden Nazi loot. Like all of Helen MacInnes' books, here is a richly...

  • The Salzburg Connection

    The chest had been hidden in a lake high in the Austrian mountains. The secrets buried there were as deadly as an unexploded bomb. Men had been killed because of it, and sudden death stalked all who searched for it. Bill Mathison, a hardheaded you...

  • Triple Threat (Omnibus) Above Suspicion/North from Rome/Double Image

    Three novels of intrigue: Above Suspicion North from Rome The Double Image ...

  • Message from Malaga

    Sunny Spain, sudden death! Ian Ferrier, on vacation from the U.S. Space Agency would not have believed his reunion with a trusted friend would lead to murder, or that he would hold the key for a vicious conspiracy of assassination, or that he woul...

  • Horizon

    “They are a fairly peaceful people. But if they are roused they will fight. They are as hard as their mountains.” British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his ha...

  • The Snare of the Hunter

    GET IRINA KUSAK SAFELY OUT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. That is the plan. Bring her to the hideout in Austria where she will be reunited with her famous father, a Nobel Prize nominee, who has escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. It is a dangerous missio...



  • Agent in Place

    AGENT IN PLACE--the spellbinding new novel of suspense adventure by the incomparable Helen Maclnnes, a magic blend of betrayal and intrigue set against the colorful backdrop of New York, Washington, and the Riviera. It begins with the theft of a t...

  • Prelude to Terror

    Robert Renwick - 1

    American art expert Colin Grant is sent to Vienna on a seemingly simple mission in this suspenseful, action-packed first installment in the thrilling Robert Renwick espionage trilogyNew York art expert Colin Grant takes on an easy commission: to trav...

  • The Hidden Target

    Robert Renwick - 2

    Chance is the trigger that unleashes this whirlwind adventure. It unexpectedly brings Nina O'Connell and Robert Renwick face to face on a sunlit street in Amsterdam. Their last meeting had been in Geneva six years before, a time when Nina, fifteen th...

  • Cloak of Darkness

    Robert Renwick - 3

    When Bob Renwick of Interintell, a counter-terrorist agency, discovers his name on the Minus List, it is just the beginning of a riveting tale of suspense that sweeps from London to New York, Washington, Paris, Chamonix, Amsterdam, Zurich, and exotic...

  • Ride a Pale Horse

    When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, esp...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helen MacInnes has published 24 books.

Helen MacInnes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ride a Pale Horse, was published in October 1984.

The first book by Helen MacInnes, Above Suspicion, was published in January 1941.

Yes. Helen MacInnes has 1 series.
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