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She Shall Have Murder (A Jane and Dagobert Brown Mystery) Paperback – November 20, 2014

by Delano Ames (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
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Dagobert Brown’s always got a new interest, Gregorian chant, wildflowers, sixteenth-century French poetry. His latest hobby, however, is murder—or at least, the murder mystery he wants Jane Hamish to write. Jane is the practical one, a no-nonsense girl, who has one weakness: Dagobert, who exasperates her and intrigues her in equal parts. “Dagobert is my hero,” she says, “but he persistently refuses to act like one.” So, together they start looking at people in Harriet’s office for plot ideas. Mrs. Robjohn seems like the perfect victim for Jane’s book: a lonely, delusional spinster who haunts the law offices where Jane works, telling everyone who’ll listen that sinister men are following her. When Mrs. Robjohn’s found dead of gas poisoning in her flat, Dagobert won’t believe it’s an accident. Dragging Jane with him through 1940s London, from pub to nightclub to deserted warehouse district, Dagobert throws himself enthusiastically—if eccentrically—into sleuthdom, determined to track down a real-life killer. In their easy camaraderie and witty banter, Dagobert and Jane bring to mind Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora, but Jane is every inch Dagobert’s intellectual equal and partner in detection. A classic Golden Age mystery, She Shall Have Murder, the first in Delano Ames’s Dagobert and Jane Brown series, stands up to the best in its genre today. But its absorbing portrayal of life in London between the wars adds another dimension, highlighted in this annotated Manor Minor Press edition.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manor Minor Press; Annotated edition (November 20, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1942024045
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1942024040
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.76 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Cindy
4.0 out of 5 stars Old fashioned British Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014
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This is an old fashioned, British amateur sleuth mystery, quite dated and well written. I did not particularly warm up to Dagobert, a young man with no visible means of support, except that he was a son of an aristocrat, (a very poor caricature of Lord Peter Wimsey, perhaps?), and kind of wondered what Jane saw in him. I enjoyed the story, but I felt it moved slowly at times.
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Nate Hudepohl
5.0 out of 5 stars Great pulp detective novel
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2015
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Great detective story in the noir tradition. Among the best of the genre and period. Lovable and memorable charachters with fantastic dialog. It earns my highest reccomendation.
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Kay
4.0 out of 5 stars a light, humorous mystery. entertaining from beginning to end
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015
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I liked the unique way that this book was written. I had a few good laughs and enjoyed the way the discovery of the murdered was presented. I also enjoyed the references to entertainers of that time period.
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laura ann
5.0 out of 5 stars She loved the book
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015
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Gift for my mom. She loved the book. Said it was a great read.
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Khirul
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but dated
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015
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I enjoyed the plot, detection, and most of the characters. But it was annoying that the heroine-narrator should be so infatuated with the egoist male lead. The writing is both excellent and witty.
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Maine Colonial 🌲
5.0 out of 5 stars Jane and Dagobert: Nick and Nora with fewer martinis?
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2012
There are few things I enjoy more than a good, old-fashioned British puzzle mystery. The kind with a limited number of suspects, and whose solution depends largely upon figuring out times and places, and picking up on small clues dropped in dialog. But the mystery also has to have an appealing sleuth. Delano Ames gives us all the elements of an excellent classic mystery, along with a bonus: TWO appealing sleuths.

Jane Hamish is a law clerk at the small London firm of Playfair & Son. Her fiancé, Dagobert Brown, is currently unemployed. A regular client, the extremely paranoid Mrs. Robjohn, has been found dead in her apartment. The death is ruled accidental, the result of the gas jet in the gas heater going on in the middle of the night when gas service is restored after an outage. Dagobert, who visited Mrs. Robjohn earlier that evening with Jane, realizes that the death was actually a murder. With his plentiful spare time, he begins an investigation.

Over drinks, tea and dinners, Jane and Dagobert compare notes about his sleuthing and what she has been able to find out in the office. They have quite a few suspects: Mrs. Robjohn's son, Douglas; his secret fiancée and Jane's office co-worker Sarah; Major Stewart, one of the law firm partners; Rosemary, another co-worker and someone who shares a secret with Major Stewart; Oates, the light-fingered office runner with apparent underworld connections; and old Mr. Playfair himself. Figuring out the culprit will take a lot of devious tricks by Dagobert, and some risky ploys by Jane.

Delano Ames's writing is delightfully wry, and Dagobert and Jane are a lively, smart-talking pair. They're not unlike Nick and Nora Charles in some ways. Dagobert delights in tricking suspects and driving them a little crazy with his antics, while Jane often tries to puncture Dagobert's bumptiousness with a well-placed dart or two. But, unlike Nora, Jane is an active partner in the sleuthing; a supremely intelligent young woman who is up to the challenge of solving the crime.

This is the first book in a 12-book series, originally published from 1948 to 1959. This Rue Morgue Press edition is nicely printed on good paper and is a pleasure to read. Rue Morgue has also published the next two books in the series,  Murder Begins at Home  and  Corpse Diplomatique: A Jane and Dagobert Brown Mystery (Jane and Dagobert Brown Mysteries) .
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LesleyH
4.0 out of 5 stars I very much enjoyed reading this amateur sleuth mystery from the Golden Age ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2015
I very much enjoyed reading this amateur sleuth mystery from the Golden Age of British mysteries. Besides the writing, I particularly enjoyed Jane, the narrator's, views of writing a mystery book, her office colleagues, and her boyfriend's life-style, although he could sometimes be a little irritating.

Set in post-war Britain, references to rationing,clothing, feeding gasmeters, amusements and entertainers of the period were true to the period. The murder, small collection of interesting suspects and their motives were all credible, as was the outcome which was revealed with the timeless classic gathering of all suspects together.

Written with wit and the clever style of the 1950s amateur sleuth mysteries, this was a most enjoyable and entertaining read. Even 60+ years on, it has lost none of it's charm. I don't know how I've not come across this author before now, but I shall certainly look out for further titles in the series.

Thank you to Manor Minor Press for making the e-book available to me.
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Ruth D Cheruka
5.0 out of 5 stars Fasinating and Well Worth Reading.
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
This is a fascinating look at post WWII England through the eyes of a working woman. I have to admit it took me a little reading to get fully invested in the story. However, once I did I was hooked. Jane is a most interesting heroine and the hero, Dagobert is as frustrating as he is endearing. A good mystery and a charming look at life after the war.
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