People like Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings (born 1939) is a British Canadian writer, most well known for the Detective Murdoch Series, the basis for the television series Murdoch Mysteries. She is credited as a Creative Consultant and occasionally writer for the show.

Maureen Jennings was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. She attended Saltley Grammar School. Jennings emigrated to Canada with her mother when she was seventeen. She studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Windsor and an MA in English Literature at the University of Toronto. Jennings initially taught at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and later practised as a psychotherapist. Her first successful writing was stage plays.