When and where was Delano Ames born?
Delano Ames entered the world on the 29th of May 1906 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
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Delano Ames entered the world on the 29th of May 1906 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Ames married Australian-born writer Maysie Coucher Ames in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1929. Their union ended with a divorce on the 17th of April 1937.
During World War II, he was assigned as a British intelligence officer. This role placed him directly within the conflict zones of Europe while his wife remained behind.
Dagobert and Jane Brown became a husband-and-wife amateur detective team across a series of novels. The first entry titled She Shall Have Murder arrived via Hodder & Stoughton in 1948.
The final volume appeared in 1967 under the title The Man with Three Passports. These novels shifted focus from the American-British Brown duo to a Spanish context and ran for seven years before concluding with the last publication date.