Sample of authors
Collins, Wilkie
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a number of short stories and plays. T.S. Eliot later described his novel The Moonstone (1868) as "the world's first, longest and best detective story". Collins was one of the most popular authors of his time, both at home and abroad. He was close to Charles Dickens and a notorious...
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.