In one of his stories, Cornelius Appin teaches a cat to talk, but its habit of spreading embarrassing gossip leads everyone to try to kill it.
This author wrote a story in which a chef drowns a violinist in a tureen of steaming soup for distracting diners from appreciating the chef's masterpiece. In another work by him, women of the "disenfranchisement movement" stage weeping demonstrations in opposition to Hermann the Irascible's law making voting compulsory for women. In one of his stories, Cornelius Appin teaches a cat to talk, but its habit of spreading embarrassing gossip leads everyone to try to kill it. This author created (*) Conradin, who worships the title ferret, which kills his guardian. The line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" ends a story by him in which Vera Sappleton frightens Mr. Nuttel by convincing him that the hunters returning through the title entrance are ghosts. For 10 points, name this British short story writer who included "Sredni Vashtar" in his The Chronicles of Clovis and wrote "The Open Window".
This author wrote a story in which a chef drowns a violinist in a tureen of steaming soup for distracting diners from appreciating the chef's masterpiece.
Saki [or H.H. Munro]