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. Agatha, Gerald, and her team of detectives must untangle a web of contempt in order to uncover a killer’s identity.Īka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester. But when she is also found murdered, Gerald is eager to help Agatha with the case. Too bad he was seen kissing another newcomer. The good news is that a handsome retired detective named Gerald has recently moved to town. But when Damian hires Agatha to find the real killer, she finds no shortage of suspects.
His father’s death, it seems, was no accident. But the police are definitely interested in him―as suspect number one. The villagers are relieved to learn that Bellington’s son and heir, Damian, has no interest in continuing his father’s development plans. When Agatha and her friend Sir Charles Fraith attempt to convince Lord Bellington to abandon his plans he scoffs: “Do you think I give a damn about those pesky villagers?” So when Agatha finds his obituary in the newspaper two weeks later, it’s no surprise that some in town are feeling celebratory. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land developer, wants to turn the community garden into a housing estate. Unfortunately, the village she lives in is about to get a little less cozy. When Agatha Raisin left behind her PR business in London, she fulfilled her dream of settling in the cozy British Cotswolds where she began a successful private detective agency.
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