1. Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig.

    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.

  2. George Orwell, Decline of the English murder.

    A kind of why-oh-why moan about how they don't make them like Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper any more.

  3. Dylan Thomas, Because the pleasure-bird whistles.

    A famously alcoholic poet, not that that narrows the field much.

  4. Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

    The legendary sleeper being Rip Van Winkle, also by Washington Irving. The missing name is Ichabod Crane.

  5. P.B. Shelley, Ode to Naples.

    Shelley, to be more precise, died off the Italian coast.

  6. Stendhal, La chartreuse de Parme.

    You make an Épiscopale by mixing yellow Chartreuse with green Chartreuse. Then add parmesan.

  7. Toni Morrison, Beloved.

    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.

  8. Boccaccio, Decameron.

    Day 2, tale 8. The narrators have fled the plague in the city.

  9. Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon.

    A few lines of Proven&cced;al in a book otherwise in French.

  10. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses.

    The book enraged rather a lot of people, many of whom mistook their own rage for the divine kind.

  11. Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation.

    It was said of Goldsmith that he "wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll".