Chesney’s first detective story earned her £3,000 and for much of her writing career she was careful to keep producing stories – sometimes at the rate of six novels a year – to help keep her ‘head above water’.In 2001 she was treated for cancer and had a mastectomy. Pod pseudonimem M. C. Beaton, wydała powieści kryminalne i sensacyjne, głównie serie "Agatha Raisin" i "Hamish Macbeth Pod pseudonimem M. C. Beaton, wydała powieści kryminalne i sensacyjne, głównie serie Agatha Raisin i Hamish Macbeth. Írói karrierje 1979-ben kezdődött, ekkor adták ki első könyvét. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Over the course of her career, Chesney Gibbons published more than 160 novels, which were translated into 17 languages.
It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of author Marion Chesney Gibbons, known professionally as M.C. And it gave her an accidental entree into journalism.The first, “Regency Gold,” was published under the pen name Jennie Tremaine.
“One day a baking competition, another a murder,” wrote Marion Chesney Gibbons in Death of a Celebrity, one of the Hamish Macbeth novels she … The couple eventually moved to New York with their young son Charles and took reporting roles at the New York Star, where she made friends with local gangsters.Rapper Wiley apologises for 'generalising' during his anti-Semitic social media rants - before...Her Beaton titles have sold 21million copies worldwide and her detective creations made successful moves to television – although she never forgave the BBC for its shady portrayal of her beloved Hamish in the successful 1990s series starring Robert Carlyle.She routinely produced two books a year – one Hamish and one Agatha – until her husband was taken into a nursing home.Chesney recalled the time she spent there as savagely competitive, with newspaper reporters often beating police to crime scenes using information that had been obtained from stolen police radios.Covid's killed the Argos book of dreams! “But the next week, an office boy gave me two critics’ tickets for the Glasgow Empire,” a major theater. She was 83.The St. Martin’s Publishing Group, whose Minotaur Books published her Agatha Raisin series, announced the death. Author Born: June 10, 1936; … Pictures Mark Gibson Herald&Times Group.Author M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney) wrote the Hamish Macbeth Novels. Beaton, Ms. Chesney introduced a very different sort of crime solver: Agatha Raisin, a London publicist who retires to Carsely, a fictional village in the Cotswold region of England, where Ms. Chesney herself had recently moved after living in the Scottish Highlands since the mid-1980s. Using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton, she also wrote many popular mystery novels, most notably the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series. ... comparing “Death of a Scriptwriter,” a Hamish Macbeth mystery, and “Agatha Raisin and the … The brutal fatalities she came across in Glasgow’s tenements put her off producing grittier crime fiction for life.Chesney is survived by her son, Charles, 48.She married the Daily Express’s Middle East correspondent Harry Scott Gibbons in 1969.