Jane Bee is the name of a fictional character, the protagonist of several murder mystery novels by the Canadian author Douglas Whiteway

Douglas Whiteway

Douglas Alfred Whiteway is a journalist and author who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. He has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. He has worked for the Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press.Under the pen-name...

 (under the penname C. C. Benison). In each one, a murder takes place at one of Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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's estates, and Her Majesty asks Jane to solve the crime, giving her some clues and helpful information as she goes along.

Jane is a young woman from Charlottetown

Charlottetown

Charlottetown is a Canadian city. It is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...

, Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

, Canada

Canada

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, whose father Steve is a retired Mountie

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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; her mother Ann is a journalist, and she has two older sisters (all back in Canada) and a great-aunt Grace who lives near London. Jane was staying with Grace when she answered a newspaper ad for a job and thus became a maid on the royal staff.

Books in the series

• Death at Buckingham Palace (1996)
• Death at Sandringham Palace (1996)
• Death at Windsor Castle (1998)