Dulcie Gray was the pseudonym and stage name for Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Denison,nee Bailey, (l915-2011). Born in Kuala Lumpur, her father a solicitor, and educated in England , she returned to Malaya to teach .
Upon the death of her father , she returned to England and studied at the Academy des Beaux Arts, London , and the Webber-Douglas Dramatic School . She married actor Michael Denison in 1939.
In Murder in Melbourne an Australian airline pilot finds his girlfriend poisoned with strychnine in the bedroom of a squalid hotel . An explanatory note states the first part of the book was written in Melbourne when Dulcie Gray was starring in Tea and Sympathy.
The book thanks Detective Inspector Welby of the Russell Street Criminal Investigation Branch, Melbourne, for help he gave the author about Australian police procedure. Detective Inspector Peters of the CIB is assigned to the case.
Gray was vice-president of the British Butterfly Conservation Society and in 1978 published Butterflies on My Mind, a work on the conservation and life of butterflies in Great Britain. She also wrote a short biography of J.B. Priestly, the English novelist and playwright.
(Murder. Melbourne. Butterflies.)
