The mystery novel
Lullaby
Of Murder by Dorothy Salisbury Davis has two Shakespeare references. The
first is a reference to
Macbeth,
specifically the character of Banquo: “Coming home to Tony as large as life, as
real as Banquo’s ghost, and at his most malevolent if that was how you saw him”
(p. 85). In the novel, Tony has been murdered, and Eleanor destroyed a portrait
of him. And the second reference comes when Eleanor is being questioned. At one
point she says, “It is much ado about nothing, isn’t it?” (p. 151).
Lullaby Of Murder was originally published in 1984. The edition I read was published in 1989.
