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Delano Ames

Born

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May 29, 1906

Died

January 01, 1987

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Delano Ames (May 29, 1906 – January 1987) was an American writer of detective stories. Ames was the author of some 20 books, many of them featuring a husband and wife detective team of amateurs named 'Dagobert and Jane Brown'. A later series of novels involved a character named Juan Lorca, of the Spanish Civil Guard, who solved local mysteries.

Born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Delano's father Benjamin worked for the local newspaper, but moved the family in 1917 to New Mexico.

Ames married Australian born writer, Maysie Greig (1901-1971) in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1929. Greig was a prolific author of light-hearted romance novels. They divorced in 1937.

Ames lived in England for the next few years, where he married his second wife, Kit, an ...more

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	She Shall Have Murder (Jane and Dagobert Brown #1) 3.86 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1948 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corpse Diplomatique (Jane and Dagobert Brown #3) 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1950 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder Begins at Home: A Jane and Dagobert Brown Mystery by Delano Ames, Tom Schantz (Introduction), Enid Schantz (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1949 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder, Maestro, Please (Jane and Dagobert Brown #6) 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1952 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Old Crime's Sake (Jane and Dagobert Brown #12) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1959 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of a Fellow Traveller really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man in the Tricorn Hat 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1960 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Mourning for the Matador 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body on Page One 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape with Corpse 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1955 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jane and Dagobert Brown (12 books)
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3.90 avg rating — 370 ratings

Juan Llorca (4 books)
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“The pedestrian fact remains that murderers are usually persons who have some fairly ordinary reason for wishing to dispose of people, and therefore turn out to be obvious.”
― Delano Ames, She Shall Have Murder

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