After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.Īnxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes.

After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter.

She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. It's clear something strange-and deadly-is going on at the castle, and Hamish must get to the bottom of it before the 'ghost' can strike again.Īka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester. Waiting for help to arrive, Hamish and Charlie leave the castle just for a moment-to eat bacon baps-but when they return, the body is nowhere to be seen. And what Hamish and Charlie find there is worse than a ghost: a dead body propped against the wall. It turns out he's fallen into the cellar. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie 'Clumsy' Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and for all.There's no sign of any ghost.but then Charlie disappears through the floor. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series DEATH OF A GHOST When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth-Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman-returns in M.C.

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