Olive in Italy

By Moray Dalton

1909

First Published

3.30

Average Rating

136

Number of Pages

4H09M

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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 (1924), The Shadow on the Wall (1926), The Black Wings (1927), The Stretton Darknesse Mystery (1927), One by One They Disappeared (1929), The Body in the Road (1931), The Night of Fear (1931), Death in the Cup (1932), The Wife of Baal (1932), The Belfry Murder (1933), The Harvest of Tares (1933), The Black Death (1934), The Edge of Doom (1934), The Belgrave Manor Crime (1935), The Mystery of the Kneeling Woman (1936), The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936), The Case of Alan Copeland (1937), Death in the Dark (1938), Death in the Forest (1939), The Price of Silence (1939), The Art School Murders (1943), The Longbridge Murders (1945), The Murder of Eve (1945), Death at the Villa (1946), The Condamine Case (1947), The Case of the Dark Stranger (1948), Inquest on Miriam (1949) and Death of a Spinster (1951).

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Author

Moray Dalton

Author · 21 books

Pseudonym of Katherine Mary Deville Dalton Renoir (1881-1963) Katherine Dalton was born in Hammersmith, London in 1881, the only child of a Canadian father and English mother. The author wrote two well-received early novels, Olive in Italy (1909), and The Sword of Love (1920). However, her career in crime fiction did not begin until 1924, after which Moray Dalton published twenty-nine mysteries, the last in 1951. The majority of these feature her recurring sleuths, Scotland Yard inspector Hugh Collier and private inquiry agent Hermann Glide. Moray Dalton married Louis Jean Renoir in 1921, and the couple had a son a year later. The author lived on the south coast of England for the majority of her life following the marriage. She died in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1963.