What type of stories did the author of the 1938 novel This Man Must Die use the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake?
This Man Must Die This Man Must Die (French: Que la bête meure ), American title The Beast Must Die, is a 1969 French and Italian thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. The story is based on a 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake, "The Beast Must Die". The film had a total of 1,092,910 admissions in France.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in "Blackwood's Magazine" in 1889. It was later added to the collection "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories", though it does not appear in early editions. An enlarged edition planned by Wilde, almost twice as long as the "Blackwood's" version, with cover illustration by Charles Ricketts, did not proceed and only came to light after Wilde's death. This was published in limited edition by Mitchell Kennerley in New York in 1921, and in a first regular English edition by Methuen in 1958, edited by Vyvyan Holland.