M.C. Beaton Follow

1936-2019

M.C. Beaton was a best-selling novellist and creator of the fictional detectives Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. Born Marion McGowan Chesney in Glasgow in Scotland, she went from being a fiction bookseller to a crime journalist, eventually moving to work in London's Fleet Street. After moving to the United States, she made the move to become an author, penning her first historical romance novel Regency Gold. Many more Regency and Edwardian romances written under a variety of pseudonyms followed, but she rose to fame with the publication of Death of a Gossip, her first detective story and first Hamish Macbeth novel, using the name M.C. Beaton. She published over 60 detective novels during her lifetime, and saw her detectives adapted for radio and television. She leaves behind a huge body of work and legions of devoted fans.