Murder Begins At Home
(Delano Ames)
I have been looking through my parents
old book case again and found another good read that hasnt been read
since The British Sailors Society put it out of circulation. Published
in 1949 and set in America it transports you into the genre of the
detective novel with a real nineteen fifties feel about it. Jane and
Dagobert Brown are travelling across the USA avoiding post war
austerity back in England and the offer from his aunt of regular mind
numbing employment in Detroit and have got as far as New Mexico in
their unreliable car, when he persuades Jane to visit a rich and
glamorous war time collegue Miranda Ross who has since married and
lives on a huge ranch a few hours drive from El Paso. At first
they dont get invited to stay when they ring from the local diner, but
then the web weaving Miranda changes her mind and extends the red
carpet . Also staying at the ranch are a successful song writer and his
wife, Mirandas sister and her admirer, their father, Mirandas husband
and his half brother and his illegitimate child by a Mexican girl. So
when Miranda is found murdered the next morning before they have even
had time to thank her for the enchiladas she cooked them, Jane and
Dagobert feel they must solve the mystery of who did it to
absolve everyone else of suspicion, including themselves as no one is
allowed to leave and there is a murderer on the loose.
The mystery weaves it''s way on but I liked it most for the way it took
you so well into another era. You could almost feel that you were out
there in the Casa Grande mountains doing the dangerous horse ride
yourself. So I should say it is well worth looking through forgotten
books for the experience they show you and reading them.
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