Helen White Eustis II (December 31, 1916 – January 11, 2015) was an

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mystery writer and translator. She was born in

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. She studied art at

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and was awarded the

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in 1947 for her novel, ''The Horizontal Man''.

Partial bibliography

Novels

*''The Horizontal Man'' (1946) *''The Fool Killer'' (1954)

Short stories

*''The Captains and the Kings Depart, and Other Stories'' (1949) *"The Rider on a Pale Horse" (1950), later republished as "Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman" in Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

Translations

*Christiane Rochefort, ''Cats Don’t Care For Money'' (1965) *Edmonde Charles-Roux, ''To Forget Palermo'' (1968) *Georges Simenon, ''When I Was Old'' (1971) *Didier Decoin, ''Laurence: A Love Story'' (1971) *Michel Salomon, ''Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution'' (1971) *Romain Gary, ''The Enchanters'' (1975)

References

2015 deaths 20th-century American novelists 1916 births 20th-century American women writers American women novelists American mystery writers American women mystery writers Writers from Cincinnati Novelists from Ohio 20th-century American translators Smith College alumni Edgar Award winners {{US-novelist-1910s-stub