The clue quotes Robert Benchley's famous telegram: it is in capitals because it is a telegram, rather than because it is spoken by Death.
A kind of why-oh-why moan about how they don't make them like Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper any more.
A famously alcoholic poet, not that that narrows the field much.
The legendary sleeper being Rip Van Winkle, also by Washington Irving. The missing name is Ichabod Crane.
Shelley, to be more precise, died off the Italian coast.
You make an Épiscopale by mixing yellow Chartreuse with green Chartreuse. Then add parmesan.
Toni Morrison's first name is Chloe, but she doesn't use it because when she went to university she found that people didn't know how to pronounce it.
Day 2, tale 8. The narrators have fled the plague in the city.
A few lines of Proven&cced;al in a book otherwise in French.
The book enraged rather a lot of people, many of whom mistook their own rage for the divine kind.
It was said of Goldsmith that he "wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll".