The author of detective series featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died, aged 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose ...

Only established fans will enjoy M.C. Beaton's Death of a Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, this predictable series' soporific 21st installment (after 2004's Death of a Poisoned Pen), in which the ...

In 1982, Hope Dellon, who had been an editor at St. Martin’s since 1975, was approached by agent Barbara Lowenstein about a series of Regency romances, the Six Sisters. As Dellon recalls, the proposal ...

Marion Chesney, who in midlife began writing novels and produced more than 150, including mystery series written under the pseudonym M.C. Beaton that featured the endearing crime solvers Agatha Raisin ...