Can anyone identify this novelist?

[mike11111]

She wrote some wickedly funny crime novels, a mixture of Miss Marple and Tom Sharpe. It is over 13 years since I read one, but the only thing I can remember is a scene set in a cathedral in which the lady deacons (new at the time) had to parade around exclaiming, "I proclaim myself lesbian and witch".

[jno]

sounds like one of the suppressed Enid Blyton books from the 40s...

[mike11111]

Nice try, but you don't get the cigar!

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Barbara Cartland write under another name sometimes? Might be one of hers.

[mike11111]

This is post - Cartland and far too witty for her.

[hc4361]

M C Beaton and her Agatha Raisin books?

[Polly1958]

MC Beatons - Agatha Raison novels perhaps?

[anneasquith]

barbara cartland....... dont think those words would be uttered by her lol

[Polly1958]

That's weird hc!

[mike11111]

I think you may have it. Will check it out. p.s. Don't understand the significance of the post above.

[naartje]

Mike11111 - Yesterday you stated that - Playing the guitar did not make one a musician

[starone]

I love the Agatha Raisin novels and have read every one but I cannot remember the above scene, although it is very likely - it is just the sort of thing that would be in one of these books and I cannot remember everything in them.

[hc4361]

Could be Simon Brett
http://www.fantasticf....co.uk/b/simon-brett/

[mike11111]

Yet another line of research. I remember being well into his books at about the same time.

[mike11111]

Yesterday I stated that the ability to play the guitar did not make one a musician. Nothing has happened over the last 24 hours or so to make me re-evaluate.

[naartje]

Yes,Mike11111,please enlighten us all!

[starone]

Does the love of music make you a musician? I can't play a thing and have never tried, but love to listen.