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MC Beaton, multimillion-selling author of Agatha Raisin novels, dies aged 83

Written By Unknown on Thursday, January 2, 2020 | 8:04 AM

Fiercely intelligent Scottish writer, who also created detective Hamish Macbeth, did not take kindly to her ‘cosy crime’ reputation

MC Beaton, the prolific creator of the much loved fictional detectives Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, has died after a short illness at the age of 83.

The news of her death on 30 December was announced by her son, Charles Gibbons, who said that “the support of her fans and the success she enjoyed in her later years were a source of great pride and satisfaction to her, and for that I will be eternally grateful”.

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