Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a famous actor and amateur detective created by Barnaby Ross, who turned out to be Ellery Queen.

In Queen's books Lane, who lives in the medieval castle The Hamlet, helps D.A. Bruno and Inspector Thumm in New York solving complex cases and uses his logical reasoning to do so.

Ellery Queen wrote four books about him:

Tragedy of X (1932)

Tragedy of Y

Tragedy of Z (1933)

Drury Lane's Last Case