Landscape with Corpse

Jane and Dagobert Brown #9

by Delano Ames

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1955

About the author

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, and was assigned as a British intelligence officer during World War II. He also worked on anthologies on mythology and as a translator for Larousse in France. His last book was an introduction for a book of photography of Spain in 1971.

He died in Madrid, Spain, in January 1987.

Reviews

[Simon Mcleish · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've enjoyed Delano Ames for years - my parents had a couple of them. His detective stories, at least the ones with the Browns as detectives, are usually fun and often funny. This particular novel, even though it stars Dagobert and Jane Brown, was the poorest of the series that I have read, unfortunately. The sense of humour seems to have got lost, and the Spanish setting is dull.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

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