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.
Anita Blake Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the "" series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that have broken the law. Hamilton stated that she created the character after perceiving a gender inequality in detective fiction, with female characters rarely getting the same treatment as male heroes of the genre.