When and where was Delano Ames born?
Delano Ames entered the world on the 29th of May 1906 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
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.