Jessica Fletcher is in New Mexico, visiting with an artist friend and learning more about the local history. They are in a place called Chaco Springs (a fictional place, although see my comments at the bottom of this post for…
Category: Murder She Wrote
Interview with new Murder, She Wrote author: Terrie Farley Moran
As many fans of Murder, She Wrote may already know, the TV show inspired a long-running series of spin-off novels. The first book in the series, Gin & Daggers, was written by Donald Bain and published in 1989. The series…
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Murder, She Wrote 9.5 “The Dead File”
Jessica Fletcher has just arrived back at her New York City apartment and learns from her doorman that she has been made into a comic strip character named Jessica Fox. Apparently the comic strip is getting quite a few people…
Murder, She Wrote TV Guide cover story from January 1987
This year, I have taken it upon myself to document the various articles about Murder, She Wrote that were featured in TV Guide magazine during the show's original run. The show was featured five times on the cover of the magazine…
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Murder, She Wrote 9.4 “The Wind Around the Tower”
Jessica Fletcher is travelling through Ireland with Sean, her colleague from the Manhattan University criminology department (whom viewers previously met in "To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee"). Her friend is on sabbatical whereas Jessica is doing research for…
Murder, She Wrote 9.3 “The Mole”
There's definitely a lot going on in this episode: It starts in Washington, D.C. where a woman is in a dark office at night, downloading a file onto a computer disk. She manages to finish her task and get away…
Murder, She Wrote TV Guide cover story from February 1986
Murder, She Wrote has graced the cover of TV Guide magazine five times during its original run. My post from last month profiled the first of these cover stories, from March 1985. Below, I continue in the same vein by…
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Murder, She Wrote 9.2 “Family Secrets”
Jessica’s former student is back in town and he’s working on a book about Mad Maggie--the greatest scandal the town has ever seen! This event from over 30 years ago has been described as the bloodiest killing in Cabot Cove…
Murder, She Wrote 9.1 “Murder in Milan”
Jessica Fletcher is in Milan! Apparently, one of her books has been made into a movie titled All the Murderers and it’s premiering at the Milano Film Festival. (Note that the film festival didn’t exist at the time when this…
Murder, She Wrote – TV Guide cover story from March 1985
Murder, She Wrote has graced the cover of TV Guide magazine five times during its original run. Although there is now an archive of TV Guide covers, it is much more difficult to find an archive of the articles published…
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