Bel Ami the London College of Music. The music and lyrics were written by Alex Loveless. John Braine, the English novelist, stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that his first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), was based on "Bel Ami", but 'the critics didn't pick it up'. Bel Ami Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled "Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel" first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry
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