The Tragedy of Z

The Tragedy of Z
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504016610

Patience Thumm, the adventurous daughter of an NYPD inspector, teams up with actor Drury Lane to solve the mystery of a senator’s murder. Patience Thumm has just traveled the world. She turned heads in London, sipped absinthe in Tunis, and debated philosophy on the Left Bank of Paris. When she returns home to New York with a smuggled copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in her bag, her father, the NYPD’s Inspector Thumm, is quite unprepared to handle her. At first, it seems they have nothing in common—but the two soon discover a shared appetite for murder. When a corrupt senator is stabbed to death in his study, Patience can’t resist hunting for the killer. With the help of her father’s old friend Drury Lane, the legendary Shakespearean actor, she will find that all the exotic cities of the world can’t offer anything as exciting as a New York homicide.

Garrick's Folly

Garrick's Folly
Author: Johanne M. Stochholm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317645898

The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town hall and the presentation by Garrick of a statue of Shakespeare. Immense interest, enthusiasm, and controversy were aroused by the plans, which involved not only theatrical and rhetorical festivities but fireworks, processions and a horserace. This book was originally published in 1964 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. It describes the festival, which touched heights of success and depths of disaster, its impact on Stratford, its after effects in London, especially theatrical London, where rival managers tried to cash in on Garrick’s idea and where Garrick turned the Stratford failure into resounding success at Drury Lane. The author quotes entertainingly from newspapers, memoirs, and plays, and illustrates her book with contemporary engravings and portraits.

The Tragedy of Y

The Tragedy of Y
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504016602

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide’s been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . . A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before. He hadn’t left a note and he wasn’t carrying any money. The police assume he killed himself—but they are very wrong. The Hatter family is famously eccentric, and when a murder attempt is made on York’s invalid stepdaughter, any one of them could be the culprit. Solving the case will fall to Drury Lane, the retired Shakespearean actor who has turned his genius to solving crimes. But he may find that these Hatters are so crazy and so deadly, they even put Hamlet to shame.

Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager

Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager
Author: Edward Stirling
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780469655072

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Drury Lane's Last Case

Drury Lane's Last Case
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504016629

Inspector Thumm enlists the help of an actor to track down a stolen Shakespearean manuscript and solve a baffling murder in this classic mystery. Inspector Thumm has never seen such a marvelous beard. It is massive and pointed, a rainbow composed of all the colors of Joseph’s biblical coat. He’s so distracted by the beard that he hardly notices the man it belongs to: a prospective client with mysterious business. This bearded fellow hands over an envelope containing a million-dollar secret—and the key to a matter of life and death. However, Thumm quickly forgets his strange visitor when a rare Shakespearean manuscript is stolen, only to be replaced by a rarer, more valuable one. With the help of the legendary Shakespearean actor Drury Lane, Thumm must locate the missing manuscript and solve an impossible murder—before the curtain comes down forever.

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line
Author: Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, Frank Rich, Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2000-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1617746185

(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.

The Adventure of the Phantom of Drury Lane

The Adventure of the Phantom of Drury Lane
Author: Tony Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Baker Street Irregulars (Fictitious characters)
ISBN: 9781445103433

When a phantom begins scaring people at the Theatre Royal, the Baker Street Irregulars must decide if events have anything to do with three terracotta lions that have arrived from China at the British Museum. Is the mysterious "M" involved?