Guy Mainwaring Morton (1896–1968) was a barrister and writer who wrote crime novels under the pen name of Peter Traill.
He married Clare, the daughter of the Hartlepool ship-owner M.H. Horsley, in 1923."Marriages", The Times, 29 October 1923, p. 15.
Selected publications Novels Woman to Woman (1924) Memory's Geese (1924) The Divine Spark (1926) Under the Cherry Tree (1926) The White Hen (1927) Some Take a Lover (1928) The Life Fashionable (1929) Great Dust (1932) Here Lies Love (1932) The Angel (1934) Carry Me Home (1934) Red, Green and Amber (1935) Half Mast (1936) The Sleeve of Night (1937) Not Proven (1938) Six of One (1938) Golden Oriole (1940) The Wedding of the Jackal (1943) No Farthing Richer (1944) The Deceiving Mirror (1946) Under the Plane Trees (1947) Midnight Oil (1947) So Sits the Turtle (1948) The Portly Peregrine (1948) Caravanseral (1949) The Singing Apple (1949) Wings of Tomorrow (1950) Mutation Mink (1950) The Rope of Sand (1951) French Dressing (1952)
Plays Fallen Angels (1924) - with Michael Morton After the Theatre (1924) - with Michael Morton By Right of Conquest (1925) - with Michael Morton Salvage (1926) - with Michael Morton The Stranger in the House (1928) - with Michael Morton Because of Irene (1929) - with Michael Morton Tread Softly (1936)
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