Drury Lane is a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen in the 1930s under the byline of Barnaby Ross.

His father was a travelling American tragedian, and his mother an English music hall comic.

I have murdered on the stage countless times; emotionally I have suffered the agony of plotting, the torture of conscience.

And like a child viewing a simple wonder for the first time, I have just realized that the world is full of Macbeths and Hamlets.

"[2] Lane resides in "The Hamlet", a castle overlooking the banks of the Hudson River, and accompanied by a small Elizabethan village, populated by people clad in authentic period garb and all bearing Shakespearean names.