In a story by this author, a man listens to a song on the radio with the lyric “I love you, Baby” while waiting to hear from a boarding school about his son’s appendix surgery. This author wrote about an ex-army engineer who goes to a graveyard with an usherette he meets at the movies, and later learns that she serially kills members of the RAF. This author of “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” ended a story with a man thinking, “what a bloody silly way to die” while holding his slashed throat. That man created by this author has a vision of his wife and a pair of elderly twins on a vaporetto before a dwarf kills him. John and Laura go to Venice after their daughter’s death in a story by this author, who described Nat Hocken smoking his last cigarette as the title animals assault his cottage. For 10 points, name this author of “Don’t Look Now” and “The Birds.” ■END■
ANSWER: Daphne du Maurier [or Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning; prompt on “Lady Browning”]
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