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Dagobert Brown’s always got a new hobby. He's been through Gregorian
chant, wildflowers, sixteenth-century French poetry . . . But his latest
hobby is murder—or at least, the murder mystery he wants Jane Hamish to
write.
No-nonsense, sharp-witted Jane only 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.”
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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