Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film. John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013. Joe Lampton, demobilised at the end of the Second World War, is starting in
Locked-room mystery mysteries, starting in 1949 and continuing to his death in 1995. A number have been translated into English. John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, is probably the crime fiction writer most closely associated with locked room and impossible crime puzzles, which feature in most of his dozens of mystery novels. His 1935 novel "The Hollow Man" (US title: "The Three Coffins") was in 1981 voted the best locked-room mystery novel of all time by 17 authors and reviewers, although Carr himself names Gaston Leroux's "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" (1907-1908) as his favorite. (Leroux's novel was