Tatler. That same year, his final book, The Flying Dutchman (1939), was published, a political novel, commenting harshly on Germany's position in the war. In 1940, Arlen was appointed Civil Defence Public Relations Officer for the East Midlands, but when his loyalty to England was questioned in the House of Commons in 1941, he resigned and moved to America, where he settled in New York in 1946. For the next ten years of his life, Arlen suffered from writer's block. He died of cancer on June 23, 1956, in New York. Critical reception Horror writer Karl Edward Wagner included Hell! Said the Duchess on his list of "The Thirteen Best Supernatural Horror Novels" in the May 1983 issue of The Twilight Zone Magazine. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an admirer of Arlen's work. In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway recounts how, as he and Fitzgerald were sharing a long car journey to Paris, Fitzgerald told him the plots of all Arlen's books, concluding that the author was "the man you had to watch". References Selected bibliography Novels The London Venture (Heinemann, 1920) Piracy (Collins, 1922) The Green Hat (Collins, 1924) Young Men in Love (Hutchinson, 1927) Lily Christine (Doubleday, Doran, 1929) Men Dislike Women (Heinemann, 1931) Man's Mortality (Heinemann, 1933) Hell! Said the Duchess (Heinemann, 1934) The Flying Dutchman (Heinemann, 1939) Short stories The Romantic Lady (Collins, 1921) These Charming People (Collins, 1923) (15 thematically connected short stories) May Fair, In Which Are Told the Last Adventures of These Charming People (Collins, 1925) Ghost Stories (Collins, 1927) Babes in the Wood (Hutchinson, 1930) The Crooked Coronet (Heinemann, 1937) The Ancient Sin and Other Stories (Collins, 1930) (collection) The Short Stories of Michael Arlen (Collins, 1933) (collection) The Great Book of Mystery (Odhams, undated circa 1930s) - contains "The Ghoul of Golders Green" Further reading Michael J. Arlen, Exiles, Pocket, New York: 1971. (Biographical book of Arlen and his wife viewed from the perspective of Arlen's son. Includes details of Arlen's final years in New York, his writer's block, and his death). Michael J. Arlen, Passage to Ararat, Hungry Mind, Saint Paul: 1996. (On Arlen's ethnic identity and his son's quest for his lost Armenian roots. During this quest, Arlen's son tries to explain why his father preferred to live "free" from the Armenians.) Harry Keyishian, Michael Arlen, Twayne, Boston: 1975. (Critical review of Arlen's oeuvre. Contains a detailed bibliography.) Alec Waugh,