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Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1936, Marion Chesney has written over a hundred books under her own name and the pseudonyms Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester, and M. C. Beaton. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow.
Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer.
She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Lucy Budley, one of the indigent gentlefolk who pooled their resources to create the Poor Relation Hotel, is prompted by her co-proprietors to travel to Delacourt Castle in Warwickshire. Once there, they plan, she will pretend to be a distant relative and relieve the dotty old Marquess of Peterhouse of enough trinkets to support herself back in London. The plot is foiled, however, when the old Marquess dies and is replaced by his sharp-witted and darkly handsome nephew. Exposed as a liar, the widow Budley tells all and begs his forgiveness, only to discover that the new Marquess may have plans for her; he needs a wife to keep both prying neighbors and ambitious London mothers at bay. This brief novel will probably be most enjoyable to readers familiar with the same characters from earlier books in the Poor Relation series ( Lady Fortescue Steps Out and Miss Tonks Turns to Crime ). A nicely atmospheric, if somewhat simple-minded work, most notable for its gentle humor and adventurous spirit. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
When funds are particularly low at the Poor Relation Hotel (established by a small genteel group strapped for cash), one of the owners is dispatched to a country home of a distant relative to snitch some gewgaw worth pawning. There are two previous novels in this series: Lady Fortescue Steps Out [BKL N 1 92] and Miss Tonks Turns to Crime [BKL Mr 1 93]. The latest tale follows the pattern of the others--here, the timid, widowed Mrs. Budley is sent off to the country home of a doddering, dying fellow who does not know his relatives from a bedpost. The gossip on this estate is old, and Mrs. Budley winds up captivated by the company of the young new heir. Of course, all ends well, as in Chesney's previous Regencies. ~--Denise Perry Donavin
