Moray Dalton

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2014
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Olive in Italy

    Katherine M. Renoir (1882-1963), was a British author who also wrote as Moray Dalton. She was born in London. Her serial detective was Inspector Hugh Collier. Her works include: Olive in Italy (1909), The Sword of Love (1920), The Kingsclere Mystery ...

  • The Body in the Road

    It had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at his back.Violet Hunter disappears at dusk one evening on a lonely road not far from a mysterious sanatorium. Her bod...

  • Death in the Cup

    Murder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a “peaceful little place . . . where the most exciting thing that could happen would be the lowering of somebody’s golf handica...

  • The Night of Fear

    Together they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a red sash belt and a white silk shirt open at the neck.A Christmas gathering of young and old in a great country ho...

  • One by One They Disappeared

    “I want to catch them. To do that we’ve got to lead them on. Now listen to me.”Elbert J. Pakenham of New York City is among just nine survivors of the sinking of the Coptic " not counting his black cat Jehosaphat. The benevolent Mr. Pake...

  • The Strange Case of Harriet Hall

    “We’ve managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won’t last. We can’t escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders.”Harriet Hall, living in her isolated cottage outside the village of Larnwood, might not have been everyo...

  • The Art School Murders

    “I’m worried. . . .This damned black-out. I’m afraid of what may happen in the dark.”Artists’ model Althea Greville was, in life, known as something of a femme fatale. But the phrase becomes only too literal. What initially appears to be re...

  • The Belfry Murder

    “If I meet any dragons I’ll run away.”When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War, she brings with her jewels belonging to the ill-fated Romanoffs, including a famous emerald, the...

  • The Belgrave Manor Crime

    “It is believed locally that her death was accidental, but I’m afraid -- ”Our story begins with psychic investigator Cosmo Thor meeting Madame Luna, a fortune teller down on her luck. Madame Luna shortly tries to make desperate contact with Tho...



  • The Case of Alan Copeland

    “I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?”“There was death in it.”The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. The schoolmistress is an artist manqué, her quick brain wasted for lack of opportunity. There is...

  • The Condamine Case

    “’Tes a queer place seemingly. . . . Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing like smoke in the gale. ’T’esn’t a place to be out alone at night.”In London, rising young movie d...

  • Death at the Villa

    "All this blood and violence. God help us. It is like a bad dream. When shall we wake?"It is the summer of 1943, and the height of the war in Italy. Alda Olivier's quiet life at the Villa Gualtieri is violently disrupted when a wounded English paratr...

  • Death in the Dark

    "The truth can't hurt anyone," she said rather faintly.He did not speak for a minute. Then he said without looking at her. "Not if he's innocent."David Merle, a young circus acrobat, is arrested and convicted of the murder in London of wealthy eccent...

  • Death in the Forest

    "The man's heart was dicky. It couldn't stand a shock. The question is-what shock?"Roger Frere is delighted to meet the lovely Celia Holland. But Celia is leaving for the South American republic of San Rinaldo, taking a post as governess. When Celia ...

  • The Murder of Eve

    "Life hasn't always been easy here, but nobody has tried to murder me before."Roger Fordyce, a little battered by an unhappy affair, visits the Albergo Del Castello, a splendid hotel located in a little town outside Rome. While wandering the grounds ...

  • The Mystery of the Kneeling Woman

    "Not another murder!""You've said it."Kindly Reverend John Clare pays a social call upon the saturnine Simon Killick at his forbidding house, The Grange. Killick is a virtual recluse who relies on three dogs and a parrot for company.Killick is soon f...

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Moray Dalton has published 16 books.

Moray Dalton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death in the Forest, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Moray Dalton, Olive in Italy, was published in February 2014.

No. Moray Dalton does not write books in series.
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