Robjohn, the least favorite client of the firm, thanks to her frequent calls, letters and visits and unwavering paranoid belief that the mysterious "they" are out to get her. She Shall Have Murder, made into a movie on British television in 1950, introduces Jane Hamish, a pretty young executive in the law firm Daniel Playfair and Son, and Dagobert Brown, Jane's lover and a researcher/writer who is so absorbed in the thriller he and Jane are concocting around the law firm's staff, that he is astonished when the wrong victim dies. Series featuring Juan Llorca of the Spanish Civil Guard. Ames produced a Brown book every year until 1959 when he moved to Spain and switched to writing a four-book When the couple divorced, Ames moved to England where he remarried and worked for British intelligence during the second World War.Īfter the war, according to his tongue-in-cheek autobiography, he "translated an erudite history of keyboard instruments from the French, and believes that at least 100 copies were sold." Fortunately, his later efforts were more successful, beginning with in 1948 with She Shall Have Murder, the first in what was to become a 12-book series featuring the British husband-and-wife sleuthing team of Jane and Dagobert Brown.
In 1929 Ames married Maysie Grieg, who later became a highly successful author of lighthearted romances, and the duo settled in Greenwich Village where Ames published his first novel, a philosophical look at the Greek gods entitled A Double Bed on Olympus.
Be sure and scroll down at the bottom of this post for all the latest FFB links from around the blogosphere.īut first, She Shall Have Murder by Delano Ames.ĭelano Ames (1906-1987) was born in Ohio to a newspaperman father. I'm hosting Friday's Forgotten Books for Patti Abbott today.
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