Guy Mainwaring Morton

Guy Mainwaring Morton (1896–1968) was a barrister and writer who wrote crime novels under the pen name of Peter Traill.[1]

He married Clare, the daughter of the Hartlepool ship-owner M.H. Horsley, in 1923.[2]

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)

References

  1. ^ "Morton, Guy Mainwaring ("Peter Traill"; matr. 1919)". University College Oxford. Archived from the original on 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Marriages", The Times, 29 October 1923, p. 15.



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