This author wrote about Fred Hale's murder and Ida Arnold's attempts to find Pinky Brown, and he discussed Catholicism in a novel where Major Scobie commits the mortal sin of suicide.
One of this author's characters gives his wife a recorded "wedding present" telling her, "Damn you, you little bitch." That character created by this author accidentally gets sulfuric acid on his own face when trying to attack Dallow. An antihero created by this author realizes that wives can't testify against their husbands and marries a waitress at Snow's restaurant with help from the lawyer Prewitt. In another work by this author, Yusuf uses a love letter to blackmail a man who fakes angina pectoris and loves (*) Helen Rolt; that man can't confess his adultery when his wife Louise brings him to Communion. This author wrote about Fred Hale's murder and Ida Arnold's attempts to find Pinky Brown, and he discussed Catholicism in a novel where Major Scobie commits the mortal sin of suicide. For 10 points, name this author of Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter.
One of this author's characters gives his wife a recorded "wedding present" telling her, "Damn you, you little bitch."
Henry Graham Greene