Life at the Top life in Warley in response to trouble with his children and the self-knowledge of what his life needs. Life at the Top Life At The Top is the third novel by the English author John Braine, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the US by Houghton Mifflin & Co. in 1962. It continues the story of the life and difficulties of Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man of humble origins. A 1965 film adaptation of the novel was made starring Laurence Harvey. In September 2012, BBC television finally broadcast a two-part television adaptation of "Room
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