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Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pseudonym MC Beaton, was the prolific author of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin crime novels.

Death of a Gossip, the first of 34 Hamish Macbeth novels, was published in 1985. The TV series began ten years ­later, with Carlyle as the constable who just wants a quiet life.

There was actually more than one West Highland Terrier in the show as following the death of the original Wee Jock a replacement had to be found. As for Jock’s co-star Carlyle, his career took ...

Hamish Macbeth is a police constable in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, who occasionally bends the rules when it suits him or when it can help some of his fellow eccentric townsfolk. Roddy ...

Marion Chesney, who has died aged 83, was a dizzyingly prolific novelist best known as the creator, under the pseudonym MC Beaton, of two detectives who translated successfully to television: ...

Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pseudonym MC Beaton, was the prolific author of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin crime novels.