Moray Dalton

Writing as Moray Dalton, Katherine Mary Deville Dalton Renoir was a British author and poet associated today mainly with crime and mystery fiction. Sources found during this search agree that she lived from 1881 to 1963 and used Moray Dalton as her pen name.

Her career appears to have begun with earlier non-crime books, including Olive in Italy (1909) and The Sword of Love (1920). Later, she turned to detective and suspense fiction; publisher and bibliographic sources credit her with a long run of mysteries from the 1920s into the early 1950s, many featuring recurring investigators such as Inspector Hugh Collier and Hermann Glide.

Although she is not as widely known now as some of her contemporaries, Moray Dalton has remained of interest to readers of classic British crime, and modern reprints have helped bring her work back into view for a new audience.