Justin Scott

Justin Scott (born 1944 in New York City , New York ) is an American writer. Scott has written 23 thrillers and detective novels to date, including a series of five preliminary novels about Ben Abbott, a Newbury investigator. His best known pseudonym as an author is "Paul Garrison". He has written five novels under this name so far, all of which are set on the high seas. But Scott also writes novels under his real name that are closely related to the sea. Because of this preference for the sea and ships, Scott is referred to as " Dick Francis of yachting" in the English-speaking world .

Scott has also written other crime novels under the pseudonyms JSBlazer and Alexander Cole .

Scott now lives in Newtown, Connecticut with his wife, Amber Edwards , a filmmaker.

Justin Scott's best-known novel is The Shipkiller , I kill the ship . 1990 under the pseudonym Paul Garrison Scott wrote a sequel titled Fire and Ice , dt. Cold Fire . The action begins ten years after the end of the first book, with the same characters, but given a different name. The reason for the (then first) use of this pseudonym originated from Henry Morrison, the manager of Justin Scott. Scott was introduced as a crime writer after his five novels around Ben Abbott and, as Morrison feared, would not appeal to the readers as a thriller writer. Justin Scott became Paul Garrison, a Hong Kong businessman.

Live and act

Justin Scott was born in Manhattan in 1944 but grew up on Long Island in a family of professional writers: his father A. Leslie Scott , has written around 250 western novels under a variety of pseudonyms; his mother Lily K. Scott wrote for several genres: novels, love stories, but also short stories for dime books. Scott's sister is also a writer: Alison Scott Skelton , together with her husband CL Skelton .

Before Scott made a living as a writer, Scott worked as a boatman, drove trucks, built beach houses on Fire Island , worked in a bar in Hell's Kitchen, and published a magazine for electrical engineers.

Scott holds a number of degrees in American history ( Bachelor and Master degrees ). To research his novels, Scott has traveled extensively to Russia, China and Scotland.

The reason Scott used pseudonyms early in his writing career is because a writer shouldn't appear too productive back then. Young and full of action, Scott wrote four novels in his first year as an author. At the time, however, speed was equated with an inexact assembly line writer.

Awards

• In 1974 Justin Scott was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Many Happy Returns
• 1995 Renewed nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best short story An Eye for a Tooth from the anthology Justice in Manhattan

Works

As Justin Scott

• Many Happy Returns (1973), German: All bad things come in threes. from the American by Jutta Schmidt-Walk, Rowohlt, 1975, ISBN 3-499-42362-6 .
• Treasure for Treasure. (1974), German: gold in the dirt. from the American by Jutta Schmidt-Walk, Rowohlt, 1977, ISBN 3-499-42406-1 .
• The Shipkiller (1978), German: I kill the ship. from the American by Heinz Nagel, Ullstein, 2000, ISBN 3-548-24768-7 .
• The Turning (1978)
• Normandie Triangle (1981), or: The Man Who Loved the Normandie, German: His name was Otter. from the American by Helmut Kossodo, Lübbe, ISBN 3-404-10869-8 .
• A Pride of Royals (1983), German: On a secret mission. from the American by Joachim Wölfer, Lübbe, ISBN 3-404-11316-0 .
• Spy (1984)
• The Empty Eye Of The Sea
• The Auction (1985), German: Chasing Pendragon. from the American by Ingo Angres, Lübbe, ISBN 3-404-11435-3 .
• Rampage (1986)
• The Cossack's Bride (1988), or: The Widow of Desire (1989)
• The White Death (1989) from the anthology Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers share their first published stories (2000)
• The Hong Kong Edge (1990), or: The Nine Dragons, German: The last days of Hong Kong , Goldmann, ISBN 3-442-41123-8 .
• Katherine's Face (1990) from the anthology A Body is found
• The Commissioner's Moll (1992) from the anthology Missing in Manhattan
• An Eye for a Tooth (1994) from the anthologies Justice in Manhattan , The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories 1995 and The Year's finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition (1995)
• A Shooting Over in Jersey (1998) from the anthology Murder on the Run
• The Hungry Sky (2000) from the anthology Murder among Friends
• Cat in Love (2002) from the anthology Murder in the Family
• Treasure Island (1994)
• The Wrecker (2009) (with Clive Cussler )
• The Spy (2010) (with Clive Cussler)

Ben Abbott series

• Hardscape (1994)
• Stonedust (1995)
• Frostline (1997)
• McMansion (2006)
• Mausoleum (2007)

As "Paul Garrison"

• Fire and Ice (1998), German cold fire , from the American by Heinz Zwack, Blanvalet, ISBN 3-442-35239-8 .
• Red Sky at Morning (2000)
• Buried at Sea (2002), German: Showdown unter Segeln , Ullstein, 2003, ISBN 3-548-25679-1 ; also: Hunting across the Atlantic , from the American by Veronika Dünninger, Ullstein, 2004, ISBN 3-548-25908-1 .
• Sea Hunter (2003)
• The Ripple Effect (2004)
• The Janson Option (2014)

As "JS Blazer"

• Deal me out (1973)
• Lend a Hand (1975)

Web links

• Literature by and about Justin Scott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Justin Scott aka Paul Garrison
• Reader's Digest Interview with Justin Scott
• "Author unknown" : Article in the Boston Globe on Justin Scott's pseudonyms