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Murder, She Wrote is a series of crime fiction and detective novels by Jessica Fletcher of Cabot Cove. She went to college at the Harrison College in Green Falls, New Hampshire, from where she graduated with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she decided to take up a job as a substitute English teacher. 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. 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. Following the death of her husband Frank, she wrote “The Corpse Danced At Midnight”, which her nephew found and showed to his girlfriend. 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. In the course of publishing, she would soon be drawn into the intrigues of a homicide that led her to quit Coventry House. During the intervening period, she published with other houses and did other things including serving in the US House of Representative for Maine. Seven years after the publication of the debut novel, she moved to New York where she went back to teaching Creative Writing and Criminology. While she has established herself as an internationally known sleuth, she still continues to publish novels.
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 1984 and 1996. Jessica Fletcher the author of the novels and lead character in the series was played by Angela Lansbury. 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 is a widowed, childless and retired English teacher that became a successful writer of mystery novels. 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. While she has amassed quite the fortune, she loves her small coastal community of Cabot Cove in Maine and never wants to leave. 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. She counts among her friends multi-millionaires with private planes, as well as homeless people with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Nowadays she works as an amateur sleuth occupied in unraveling homicide cases in her small town. 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.
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In order to skip a task, you will need to read any book in the Murder, She Wrote Series. Just list SKIP as the task in your completion post.
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Jessica Fletcher is off to London to deliver the keynote address at a mystery writers convention. She's also looking forward to seeing her mentor, Marjorie Ainsworth, who will be hosting a party at her country estate to celebrate her latest book. Marjorie is the grand dame of mystery writing but she's in frail health.
The routine business trip for Jessica becomes murderous when she discovers Marjorie stabbed to death in her own bedroom.
Complete one of the following tasks:
a. Read a book set in London.
b. Read a book with a female MC.
c. Read a book where the MC is a writer.
d. Read the first book in a series.
Prompt #: 1 Book: The Flying Flamingo Sisters
Author: Carrie Saim
Date Read: 3/31/23
Pages: 9 pages audiobook
Task: read the first book in a series
How it Fits: first book in a series
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The "USA Today" bestselling "Murder, She Wrote" mystery series continues as Jessica Fletcher learns that Manhattan is murder at Christmastime...
Promoting her latest book brings bestselling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, restaurants, department stores...and murder?
It all begins with a sidewalk Santa staring at Jessica with fear and recognition. Behind the beard is Waldo Morse, former drug smuggler and the most notorious citizen of Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica hasn't a clue as to how he ended up as a street corner Saint Nick, but she agrees to meet him at two o'clock the next day.
Jessica shows up with her camera, but in no time at all Santa is dead. While the police are strangely slow on their feet, and the dead man's wife uncommonly fast on the run, Jessica decides to do what she does best: strategically snoop around and graciously outwit the pros on both sides of the law.
Complete one of the following tasks:
a. Read a book set in New York City.
b. Read a book with an alliterative title where the first letter of multiple words is the same.
c. Read a book where someone dresses up in any kind of costume.
d. Read a book with a skull on the cover.
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Jessica is on vacation in St. Thomas in the Caribbean when she discovers the corpse of hotel owner Walter Marschalk. The island police suspect a hot-tempered ex-employee, but cool-headed Jessica sets out to discover who's the real serpent in Eden.
The water's lovely; the scenery's gorgeous, but trouble is waiting for Jessica in paradise.
Complete one of the following tasks:
a. Read a book where the MC lives on or vacations at a beach.
b. Read a book published in the 1990s.
c. Read a book with one single person on the cover.
d. Read a book where the author's first and last initial are found in CARIBBEAN.
Begins: April 1, 2023
Ends: April 1, 2025
Hello, Jessica Fletcher fan!!
This is an individual challenge where you will have until April 1, 2025 - yes, 2 years if needed - to complete up to 56 tasks, one for each of the books in the Murder, She Wrote series.
You will have 4 tasks to choose from for each book. You only need to complete one to move on to the next book in the series.
Each time you complete a task, you will post it here in YOUR OWN THREAD. Please copy the following example for your Completion Post.
Prompt #:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
Pages:
Task:
How it Fits:
If you have any questions, please post them in the Q & A Thread.
Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘Your first prompt will be posted on April 1, 2023.
📘Books must be completed after the task has been posted.