What is Marion Chesney?
[[File:M.C.Beaton.IMG 3430.jpg|right|200px]] '''Marion Gibbons''' (née '''Chesney'''; 10 June 1936<ref>https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=412&bih=652&tbm=bks&sxsrf=ACYBGNSUvgUmO9W-J_VCr-1OYaV9aWqPYQ%3A1577824499380&ei=87ALXpPwFobbsAfjmaMI&q=Marion+Chesney+Born+in+Glasgow%2C+Scotland%2C+10+June+1936&oq=Marion+Chesney+Born+in+Glasgow%2C+Scotland%2C+10+June+1936&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12...12597.12597.0.13358.1.1.0.0.0.0.501.501.5-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.0.0....0.FtUczK0Xwlk</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83121163.html | title=Chesney, Marion - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies &#124; Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) }}</ref> &ndash; 30 December 2019) was a Scottish writer. She wrote [[romance novel|romance]] and [[mystery fiction|mystery]] novels from 1979 until her death. She her books under a form of her maiden name, '''Marion Chesney''', including the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling series. Her best known works were ''[[Death of a Gossip]]'', ''[[Death of an Outsider]]'' and ''[[Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance]]''. Chesney was born in [[Glasgow]]. She died on 30 December 2019 at the age of 83.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/31/mc-beaton-prolific-author-created-phlegmatic-pc-hamish-macbeth/ MC Beaton, prolific author who created the phlegmatic PC Hamish Macbeth and the amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin – obituary]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbons, Marion}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Scottish novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Glasgow]] {{bio-stub}}