For 10 points, name this British author of "The Birds" and  Rebecca .
In a story by this author, John realizes that his sighting of his wife with two elderly twin sisters on a ferry had been a premonition of his death when he is stabbed with a throwing-knife by a dwarf in Venice. In a story by this author, news bulletins stop coming through on the radio while a family led by the veteran Nat Hocken barricades themselves in their cottage on the Cornwall coast. In a novel by this author of "Don't Look Now," the discovery of the title character's (*)  sunken boat stops the protagonist from committing suicide at the urging of the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers; that novel by this author ends with a fire destroying the estate of Manderley and is titled for the ex-wife of Maxim de Winter. For 10 points, name this British author of "The Birds" and  Rebecca .
In a story by this author, John realizes that his sighting of his wife with two elderly twin sisters on a ferry had been a premonition of his death when he is stabbed with a throwing-knife by a dwarf in Venice.
Daphne du  Maurier