Sample of authors
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
Literary figures
Drury Lane
Gender: Male
Drury Lane was a famous American Shakespearean actor who became deaf. Having made a fortune as an actor, he lives in a castle on the banks of the Hudson where he solves complex murder mysteries in four novels by Barnaby Ross (alias Ellery Queen). Fortunately, Lane is good at lip-reading.