Question: When was the Scottish author died who wrote the novel  Fear Is the Key?
Context: Jane (Jean) Elmslie Henderson Findlay (25 Dec 1885-1944).  Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a Scottish author, and from 1916 was secretary of the Scottish War Savings Committee during WW1, and later editor of "Everyman" magazine, published by Hugh Dent from 1929 to 1932.  Jane was the daughter of Aberdeen hat merchant George Findlay and Jane Elmslie Henderson.  Both her parents were recorded as deceased on 11 January 1886, when her birth was registered.  She married widower Andrew Graham Murray 1849-1942 (1st Viscount Dunedin, a Scottish politician, and Judge), in 1923 as his second spouse.  They had no children and the title died with their deaths.  She has a portrait photo held by the National Portrait Gallery, taken by Lafayette Studios and is listed in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set in his techno-utopian Culture universe.  The hardcover edition was released on 4 October 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on 9 October in the United States.  The book's release marked 25 years since the publication of Banks' first Culture novel.  A paperback edition of the book was released on 5 September 2013 in the United Kingdom, and on 10 September in the United States.  "The Hydrogen Sonata" was Banks' last science fiction novel, as he died of gall bladder cancer in June 2013. Joseph Knight is a historical novel by Scottish author James Robertson published in 2003 by Fourth Estate.  It was the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year in 2003 and won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2004.  The novel is based on the true story of a slave brought from the Jamaica to Scotland, and the novel revolves primarily around the cities of Dundee, near where Robertson was then living, and Edinburgh. Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930.  The 1932 film "Scarface" was based on it.  The twenty-eight year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack in 1930. Anne Donovan is a Scottish author from Glasgow best known for her novel "Buddha Da" (Canongate, 2003).  Her short story collection "Hieroglyphics and Other Stories" was published in 2001.  This is currently one of the prose set texts for Scottish Literature in Scottish schools.  A second novel, "Being Emily", followed in 2008.  Her most recent novel "Gone Are The Leaves" (Canongate, 2014), was short-listed for the 2014 Saltire Scottish Literary Book of the Year Award. The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы , "Brat'ya Karamazovy", ] ), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing "The Brothers Karamazov", which was published as a serial in "The Russian Messenger" from January 1879 to November 1880.  The author died less than four months after its publication. Julie Bertagna (born in 1962) is a Scottish author who has written real life and science fiction novels for both children and young adults.  Her books have been shortlisted for several literature awards, including the Carnegie Medal and her novel "Exodus" was the winner of the Lancashire County Library Children’s Book of the Year Award.  "Soundtrack", her second novel for young adults, won a Scottish Arts Council Award, the second highest award ever given to a Scottish children's writer. Fear Is the Key is a 1961 first-person narrative thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: "Alasdair MacGill-Eain" ; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.  His works include "The Guns of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra" and "Where Eagles Dare" – all three were made into popular films.  He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. The Collected Jorkens is a three-volume omnibus collection of fantasy short stories by author Lord Dunsany and issued by Night Shade Books, then of Portland, Oregon.  The first volume comprises "The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens", first published in London by G. P. Putnam's Sons in April, 1931 (and then in the USA), and "Jorkens Remembers Africa," first published in New York City by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1934 (and then in the UK).  The second volume gathers the third and fourth books of Dunsany's Jorkens tales, with two previously uncollected pieces.  These books, "Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey" and "The Fourth Book of Jorkens" were originally published in 1940 and 1947 respectively (the latter's 1948 USA edition from Arkham House was for many years the only Jorkens volume widely available).  The third volume gathers the fifth and sixth books of Dunsany's Jorkens tales, with three previously uncollected pieces, including the last Jorkens story written.  The books, "Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey" and "The Last Book of Jorkens" were originally published in 1954 and 2002 respectively (the latter, prepared for publication around 1957, and only discovered in 2001, was published in a limited edition, with an introduction explaining its origins - not reproduced in the omnibus volume).  The fifth book brought one key story in which Jorkens is joined by his most frequent adversary, Terbut, while the sixth book contains two stories written as late as 1957 (February and August); the author died in October 1957.
Answer: 2 February 1987