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Kingsbury Scott

1880–1943

Best known for the 1929 sea adventure Strange Waters, this little-known American writer built suspense around merchant ships, wartime danger, and quick thinking under pressure. The surviving record is slim, which gives his work an old-pulp-magazine air of mystery.

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Strange waters

Strange waters

by Kingsbury Scott

About the author

Kingsbury Scott was the pen name of Myron Kingsbury Scott (1880–1943). Public book records and library listings connect that name with the story Strange Waters, and Project Gutenberg identifies it as a short work first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1929.

Strange Waters is a maritime adventure set against the First World War, following a Great Lakes fireman whose ship is sent into Atlantic danger. That mix of working-ship detail, action, and wartime suspense suggests a writer drawn to fast-moving popular fiction rather than literary display.

Very little biographical information appears to be easily confirmed online beyond his dates and name form, so much of his life remains obscure. A memorial record places Myron Kingsbury Scott in Grand Haven, Michigan, which fits neatly with the Great Lakes setting of his known fiction.