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Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...
...most interesting and valuable of the seven. The London Times comments that "The whole set will constitute a very valuable reprint." The appearance of "A Garland for John Donne" is particularly appropriate at this time since it marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the great Elizabethan poet and preacher. The list of the eight scholars who wrote the essays which comprise this volume is a sufficient guarantee that the volume will not only have an interest to scholars but will also appeal to all who are interested in poetry...
...Elizabethan Lyric", Professor Rollins, Harvard...
Half a century ago, an unknown inventor made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century...
...There was a love letter to Anne Hathaway and a tribute to an ancestor of Ireland's for having saved Shakespeare's life, a device used by Ireland to strengthen his story. The author even went so far as to include a blank sheet of paper bearing a characteristically Elizabethan watermark in order to lend an air of validity to the documents...