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Pope Paul VI's love of this author is supposedly why England is permitted to use the Tridentine Mass. (20[1])This author met archaeologist and future husband (20[1])Max Mallowan (20[1])on a dig (20[1])with Leonard Woolley. (20[1])An earlier husband may have caused this author to enter a fugue state and disappear for (20[1])11 (20[2])days (20[1])in 1926. Tony Marston chokes to death early in a novel (0[1])by this author whose original (*) racist title came from a (10[1])minstrel song. This author's radio play Three Blind Mice (10[1])was adapted for the West End and ran continuously from 1952 to 2020. This author of The Mousetrap provided the source material for Kenneth Branagh ("brah-naw") films such as Death on the Nile. For 10 points, name this mystery author of Murder on the Orient Express. ■END■ (10[1])

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