She has chosen the perfect time for a launch which is just before Christmas. “Manhattans & Murder” the second novel of the series opens to Jessica Fletcher in New York, where she is launching her latest mystery novel. To be cleared she needs to put all her sleuthing skills to work to track down the man that had set her up. She is the lead suspect in the homicide and given that her friend had been such a public and popular figure, she also has to deal with the circus of media coverage. But then she wakes up on the morning after the party to find that her friend Marjorie had been killed in cold blood. Jessica was wary of some of the characters but since it was only for one night, she does not give it much thought. She invites her niece, some prominent personalities in the publishing industry as well as some questionable characters. Marjorie decides to host a party while Jessica is in town. But her friend is advanced in age and thinks that it is only a matter of time before she is dead. She happens to be one of the most popular mystery fiction authors in the world. She is set to give the commencement speech at a function and while at it spend time with Marjorie Ainsworth. In “Gin & Daggers” the first novel of the Murder, She Wrote Series, Jessica Fletcher is on her way to London. While she prefers to work as JB Fletcher both in her writing career and sleuthing work, she increasingly finds that her personal life and work often overlap. Nowadays she works as an amateur sleuth occupied in unraveling homicide cases in her small town. She counts among her friends multi-millionaires with private planes, as well as homeless people with nothing but the clothes on their backs. She has never let her success go to her head and has kept in touch with all her old friends that she has known since her teaching days. While she has amassed quite the fortune, she loves her small coastal community of Cabot Cove in Maine and never wants to leave. It all began with a small old Royal typewriter but over time and as she became more successful, she moved to a computer that runs on Windows 3.1. Jessica is a widowed, childless and retired English teacher that became a successful writer of mystery novels. The light-hearted series of novels are cozy mysteries set in Cabot Cove, where Jessica Fletcher the amateur sleuth goes about solving a range of homicides. Jessica Fletcher the author of the novels and lead character in the series was played by Angela Lansbury. The Murder, She Wrote series of novels by Jessica Fletcher was borne from a TV series by the same name that aired on the CBS Network between 19. While she has established herself as an internationally known sleuth, she still continues to publish novels. Seven years after the publication of the debut novel, she moved to New York where she went back to teaching Creative Writing and Criminology. During the intervening period, she published with other houses and did other things including serving in the US House of Representative for Maine. In the course of publishing, she would soon be drawn into the intrigues of a homicide that led her to quit Coventry House. She had it published by Coventry House who loved it so much that they published it, marking the start of Jessica’s career as an author. Following the death of her husband Frank, she wrote “The Corpse Danced At Midnight”, which her nephew found and showed to his girlfriend. They have no children of their own but they adopted Grady their nephew, who they raised as their won after his parents perished in an automobile accident. She interned at the Appleton Theater for a while and it was while she was working there that she met Frank Fletcher, a United States Air Force Captain that she went on to marry. After graduation, she decided to take up a job as a substitute English teacher. She went to college at the Harrison College in Green Falls, New Hampshire, from where she graduated with a degree in journalism. Murder, She Wrote is a series of crime fiction and detective novels by Jessica Fletcher of Cabot Cove.
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