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Bain, Donald

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan

First edition. Another literary caper for TV heroine Jessica Fletcher, with a mystery writers' convention in London the setting, and disputed authorship of a best-seller the cause for murder. Ms. Fletcher, as is her wont, attracts mayhem like a magnet, and generously gives Bain credit as co-author. v , 264, 2 pages. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Gin & Daggers: A Murder She Wrote Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Fletcher, Jessica

United States

McGraw=Hill

Yet another book about Prohibition, this time in rural Illinois, where rival gangs of bootleggers fought for supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan was charged with keeping order. One gang went so far as to bomb their rival's headquarters from an airplane, and it was this incident which led Donald Bain--whose earlier efforts included another sort of airplane saga, Coffee, Tea, or Me--to investigate the whole period. Unfortunately, the airplane bombing is not strong enough to support an entire book, especially since it is buried some 200 pages into this over-long tale. It's Charlie Birger's gang vs. the Shelton Brothers, against a backdrop of murders and Klan raids, with popular support on the side of the Klan. When a number of Klansmen are indicted for everything from malicious mischief to assault with intent to murder, 3,000 townspeople rally at a local church and post over $3 million in bonds ""for the accused."" This book started out to be a novel, and while Bain admits to taking ""certain liberties with putting words in my characters' mouths"" and to compressing time, he swears the facts are true, based on research in Southern Illinois libraries. The problem is that, true or juiced up, the book has nothing to say.

War in Illinois

PRENTICE/HALL

Gin & Daggers (Murder, She Wrote)

Cabot Cove's own mystery writer and sleuth, Jessica Fletcher, travels to London to visit the grande dame of mystery novels, only to discover that the acclaimed author has been murdered

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Avon/Books

Case Against Private Aviation

Cowles Book Company

Murder, She Wrote: Manhattans & Murder

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...

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

BERKLEY

The USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series continues as Jessica Fletcher embarks on a murderous vacation... After a cold winter in Cabot Cove, Maine, and with another soon-to-be bestseller on the way to her publisher, mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is off to balmy St. Thomas with its aquamarine sea and white sand beaches. But from the moment Jessica arrives at a four-star inn nestled by a beautiful lagoon, she senses trouble in paradise. Yet the gourmet food and the beautiful sunsets chase away Jessica's concerns...until she finds the owner's body at the edge of the lagoon. The island police think that a hot-tempered ex-employee is the killer. But for cool-headed Jessica it's time to unpack her talent for sleuthing and find the real serpent in this Eden...

Murder, She Wrote: Rum and Razors

Genre Fiction

Jessica Fletcher must catch an artistic killer in this mystery in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series... Cozy Cabot Cove, Maine, has a country luncheonette, but not much high culture. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher is the only writer in residence, but the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony may bring scores of artistic people to town. No one, however, expected a creative killer. The posh retreat offers struggling aritsts a European spa, psychiatry, and even hypnotism. But soon the retreat begins to look like a health hazzard. A suicide attempt and a brutal murder quickly arouse the sheriff's attention—and Jessica's. And when an old friend mysteriously disappears, Jessica fears a twisted genius is at work writing a scenario for murder—putting Jessica's own life on the line.

Murder, She Wrote: Brandy and Bullets

Jessica Fletcher solves a murder by the bay in this mystery in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series... Cabot Cove, Maine's most famous mystery author is excited about promoting her new book in glamorous San Francisco. Jessica can't wait for drinks and dinner on Fisherman's Wharf, a ride on the cable cars, and a romantic rendezvous with Scottish policeman George Sutherland. She doesn't know that solving a murder may be penciled into her agenda. Actually, a visit to a women's prison is already on Jessica's schedule, and afterwards she finds a mysterious diary slipped into her bad. Its poignant contents make her suspect a beautiful inmate has been unjustly convicted of killing her husband. Soon Jessica is questioning witnesses throughout the Bay Area, from a restauranteur in a Sausalito mall to a female impersonator in the Castro district. But death is waiting on the Golden Gate Bridge—and Jessica may find out how risky love can be...

Martinis & Mayhem: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery

The USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote mystery series continues as Jessica Fletcher searches for justice in Beantown... Jessica is off to Boston to help her eccentric lawyer friend, Malcolm McLoon, defend a tycoon accused of fratricide. Her uncanny sleuthing talents will come in handy when the two old acquaintances dive into the case with their characteristic vigor. But when the defendant's girlfriend—and his only alibi—is found dead in her apartment, the case takes one more murderous turn for the worse. Is someone out to make sure the accused gets convicted? Jessica has her suspicions, especially when the jurors become victims of deadly accidents. With only her gut feelings at work for her, Jessica must outwit the tenacious prosecutor and find the real culprit—before the killer finds her...

A Deadly Judgment (Murder She Wrote)

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