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M.C. Beaton

M.C. Beaton Books

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M.C. Beaton, born in 1936, is a British writer known for her detective novels, particularly the Agatha Christie-style series featuring Hattie Graham and Cordelia Gray. Her works are appreciated for their humor and wit.

Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor

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As the Pig Turns: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

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Death of a Village

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“A library is a palace of dreams.”

Dream Library Palaces

Author:M.C. Beaton

“More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.”

“Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Views Fairs Drinking Do You Know Sober Foreheads Liver Jocks Sober Up

Book:Death of a Poison Pen

Source: Death of a Poison Pen

“Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.”

Sometimes Talent Okay Awful Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:M.C. Beaton

“Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.”

Ifs Enough Turns Waiting Ocean Bird Breaths Tides

Author:M.C. Beaton

“religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.”

Believe Spiritual Religion Spirituality Belief Hell Spiritual Beliefs

Author:M.C. Beaton

“the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.”

Sound Vision Distance Train Solitary Steam Bleak

Book:Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus

Source: Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus

“That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.”

Reality Wanted Trouble Achieve Television Fame These Days Programmes

Author:M.C. Beaton

“Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?”

People Ifs Should Television Happenings Things Happen Upset Nasty

Book:Death of a Village

Source: Death of a Village

“I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.”

Giving Wanted Given Good Times Bad Day Entertainers

Author:M.C. Beaton

“A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.”

Feels Said Young Gentleman

Book:The Quiche of Death: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

Source: The Quiche of Death: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”

Eye Age Youth Expression Appearance Clever Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery Age And Experience

Book:As the Pig Turns: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

Source: As the Pig Turns: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”

Two Dies Loses Half Height Inches

Book:Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor

Source: Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor

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Born: 1936
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 13

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