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J S Borthwick (1923 - )

Genre: Mystery

Borthwick, a pseudonym for Jean Scott Creighton, lives in Thomaston, Maine, and is the author of mystery novels set in Maine and featuring professor and amateur sleuth Sarah Deane and love interest Dr. Alex McKenzie. She has a master's degree, has lectured in English at Indiana University, taught at Maine middle and high schools, and currently teaches a short story course at Coastal Senior College in Thomaston.

Borthwick's books include:

  • The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites (1982; takes place in Texas),
  • The Down East Murders (1985; Maine)
  • The Student Body (1986; Maine), Bodies of Water (1990/1999; ocean liner off Maine coast)
  • Dude on Arrival (1991; takes place in Arizona)
  • The Bridled Groom (1994; Maine)
  • Dolly is Dead (1995/1996; Maine),
  • The Garden Plot (1997/1998; Europe)
  • My Body Lies Over the Ocean (1999/2000)
  • Coup De Grace (2000).
  • Murder in the Rough (2002)
  • Intensive Scare Unit (2004): 12th in the series. Sarah's 74-year-old cantankerous aunt, Julia Clancy, proprietor of the High Hope horse farm, is in the hospital in Bowmouth, Maine, for open heart surgery. While she's recovering, she is the last person to see a patient alive before he's found strangled in the lavatory, and then a shadowy figure in hospital garb slips into her room and tries to strangle her.
  • Foiled Again (2007): 13th in series. During rehearsals at Bowmouth College (in Maine) of the gender-bending Romiette and Julio, student actors engaging in horseplay leave Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded. When Sarah stumbles on a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed.

Her daughter is Margaret S. Creighton, who writes history books, including The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History (2004), Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 (1996, with Lisa Norling), and Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 (1995).


Last Update: 06/08/2007

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