found: Author's Death of a gossip, 1985:CIP t.p. (M.C. Beaton) publisher info (b. Scotland, resides in London)
found: Her Death of a macho man, 1996:CIP t.p. (M.C. Beaton) pub. info. (real name Marion Chesney)
found: Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Feb. 25, 2005(Marion Chesney; also known as M. C. Beaton, Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward; b. June 10, 1936, Glasgow, Scotland)
found: Bookseller website, consulted January 2, 2020(M.C. Beaton; prolific writer MC Beaton, creator of the much-loved Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, has died. Beaton passed away on 30th December [2019] aged 83)
