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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 (10[1])members of the RAF. This author of “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” (10[1])ended a story with a man thinking, (-5[1])“what a bloody silly (10[1])way to die” while holding his slashed throat. (-5[1])That man created by this author has a vision of his wife (10[1])and a pair of elderly twins on a vaporetto before a dwarf (10[1])kills him. (10[5])John and Laura (10[1])go to Venice (10[2])after their daughter’s death in a story by this (10[1])author, (-5[1])who described Nat Hocken smoking his last (10[1])cigarette (-5[2])as the title animals assault his cottage. For 10 points, name this author of “Don’t Look Now” and “The Birds.” (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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