Sir Henry Gage is found dead at his country house in Hampshire. But who is to inherit his fortune? His great niece Laura and her half-brother Paul arrive from Canada to claim the inheritance and the family seat. But are they really who they say they are? How will they be received by Sir Henry’s cousin, Adela Durrant and her wayward, heroin-addicted son Leonard? The scene is set for murder, but the question is how many will die? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Moray Dalton was the pen name of Katherine Mary Deville Dalton Renoir. Katherine was born in 1881 in Hammersmith, London to an American father and a Canadian mother. After writing two mainstream novels, her first crime novel, The Kingsclere Mystery was published in 1924. She would write a total of twenty-nine crime novels by 1951. One of many female writers who chose a male pseudonym to compete in the genre, Moray Dalton is one of the most under-rated crime authors of the ‘Golden Age’. Among the characters she created were the percipient and persistent private detective Hermann Glide and most popular of all, the young and woman-shy Scotland Yard inspector, Hugh Collier, who stared in a fifteen-book series. After living most of her life on the south coast of England, Katherine Renoir died in Worthing in 1963.
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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.
