A drunken misogynist muses that Avril Lavigne has the “Valhalla of vaginas” during a road trip through this city with his son in Nick Cave’s novel The Death of Bunny Munro. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city. Pinkie, a sociopathic 17-year-old, leads a gang that tracks down Hale in this title city of an early Graham Greene thriller.
ANSWER: Brighton [accept Brighton Rock; accept Brighton and Hove] (That's the same Nick Cave who sings for the Bad Seeds.)
[10h] Graham Greene commended this author’s The West Pier as “the best book written about Brighton.” This author wrote the plays Rope and Gas Light.
ANSWER: Patrick Hamilton
[10e] Brighton's seedy underground history also influenced a Keith Miles mystery novel whose title references this Agatha Christie novel, in which Hercule Poirot investigates a death on the title train.
ANSWER: Murder on the Orient Express [or Murder in the Calais Coach; or Murder on the Brighton Express]
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