Drury Lane’s Last Case

Dramatis Personæ

DR. ALONZO CHOATE, retiring curator of the Britannic Museum.

HAMNET SEDLAR, incoming curator of the Britannic Museum.

MRS. LYDIA SAXON, patronne des arts.

CRABBE, the Saxon librarian.

GORDON ROWE, a young scholar.

DR. ALES, a bibliophile.

MAXWELL, his servant.

DONOGHUE, special guard at the Britannic Museum.

JOE VILLA, a thief.

GEORGE FISHER, an omnibus driver.

BOLLING, Chief of the Tarrytown Police Department.

INSPECTOR THUMM, retired Inspector of Detectives.

PATIENCE THUMM, his daughter.

MR. DRURY LANE, who makes his last bow.

INCIDENTAL CHARACTERS: Samuel Saxon (who is dead); Sir John Humphrey-Bond (who is dead); James Wyeth (who is alive but does not appear); museum employees, police, a district attorney, employees of the Rivoli Bus Company, 17 elderly Indiana schoolteachers, etc., etc.

Place: NEW YORK CITY AND ENVIRONS.

Time: THE NEAR FUTURE