Delano Ames

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Delano Ames


Born
in The United States
May 29, 1906

Died
January 01, 1987

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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
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She Shall Have Murder (Jane...

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Corpse Diplomatique (Jane a...

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Murder Begins at Home: A Ja...

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3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1949 — 8 editions
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Murder, Maestro, Please (Ja...

3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1952 — 6 editions
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For Old Crime's Sake (Jane ...

3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1959 — 7 editions
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Death of a Fellow Traveller

3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions
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No Mourning for the Matador

4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions
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Man in the Tricorn Hat

3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1960 — 6 editions
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Body on Page One

4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions
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Man with Three Chins

3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions
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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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