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Murder, She Wrote

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Murder, She Wrote	comment	Murder, She Wrote is a popular, long-running television mystery series created by Peter S. Fischer and the team of Levinson and Link, starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher, who lives in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. The series aired for 12 seasons on CBS, from 1984 to 1996.Ruthlessly formulaic, most of the show's episodes follow a standard format: a murder is discovered, Jessica starts snooping around, the police tell her to let professionals handle things, she ignores them, then deduces the murderer's identity in a "Eureka!" Moment, and finally engineers a public confession, frequently by tricking the murderer into a Just Between You and Me. And then everybody laughs. Later seasons did mess with the formula a bit, changing the mysteries from Christie-style whodunnits to Columbo-style howcatchums. All three of the show's creators were tied to Columbo.The series was followed by a series of four made-for-TV films, aired from 1997 to 2003, and also led to a short-lived Spin-Off, The Law and Harry McGraw. Angela Lansbury has said she'd like to take one more swing at Jessica Fletcher, but no one else has shown interest. Additionally, rumors began in late 2013 that a possible reboot was in the works, with Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer as a "hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel." After a lukewarm reception from fans and Lansbury herself, the idea was shelved.An amusing interpretation, lampshaded in the show, no less, is that there is no better explanation for the sheer number of murders the lead character encounters throughout the long run of the series than her involvement in all of them. Indeed, if Cabot Cove alone were really to have suffered that many murders, it would top the FBI national crime statistics by several orders of magnitude. Not only does this one town see more homicides in a season than the entire state of Maine sees per year in real life, but the town has an estimated murder rate eighty-six times higher than the most murderous city in the real world, Caracas, Venezuela. Also, if you're Jessica Fletcher's friend in any capacity but not an episode regular, you're pretty much doomed either to kill someone or be killed, or be wrongly arrested for being a killer.In an interesting cross-media spin-off, Donald Bain wrote several mystery novels inspired by the series, all of which credited Lansbury's character Jessica Fletcher as a co-writer. The series continued after his death, with Jon Land completing Bain's last work (book #47) and then taking over as main writer (with Bain's grandson as a consultant) for books 48 to 52. As of July 2020, Terrie Farley Moran has been announced as succeeding Land as the main author, from books 53 on.Now has a character sheet. Feel free to contribute.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: Jessica's friend Maggie is able to identify her killer by pointing to a descriptive phrase in the book she's holding when she dies.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
Murder, She Wrote / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: Reversed, in-universe. The reason Jessica started writing her mysteries in the first place was to give herself an outlet to work through her grief over her husband's death. In a later episode, Seth expresses concern that she's investing too much of her time in her books and missing out on life.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
Murder, She Wrote / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: Jessica distracts a pack of paparazzi by saying, "Isn't that Mel Gibson?" and pointing behind them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Murder, She Wrote / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: A woman who is having an affair pretends to be talking to her hairdresser when she is actually talking to her lover because her husband is in the room.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_12dd5755	type	Pursued Protagonist
Murder, She Wrote / int_12dd5755	comment	Pursued Protagonist: "Big Easy Murder" opens with the first Victim of the Week being chased through the swamps outside New Orleans before being struck down with a machete.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Murder, She Wrote / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Lt. Timothy Hanratty in "No Accounting for Murder" and "Smooth Operators."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Murder, She Wrote / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: In book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders), side-character Alicia Richardson suffers from this after a troubling and traumatic experience in London, where she and her husband Jed are taken hostage while touring the Tower of London by a man who threatens to kill them unless he gets what he wants — an hour's time speaking to Parliament, whom he wants to have words with because they ruined his family's name in 1725 (having charged one Catherine Hayes with the murder and dismemberment of her husband) and continue to do so to this day. Over a week later, even though the man was caught and subdued by the police, Alicia continues to think she's seeing the man's orange eyes wherever she's going. Jessica also experiences a lesser version after managing to rescue the Richardsons, due to the culprit having shot at her at the last minute.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Murder, She Wrote / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: "Snow White, Blood Red" has the most graphic scene in any episode, where a victim is stabbed to death and hung from a showerhead. When he's discovered, the entire floor of the stall is covered in blood and it's dripping slowly down his lifeless body.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_152e7951	type	Anonymous Benefactor
Murder, She Wrote / int_152e7951	comment	Anonymous Benefactor: A toned-down version is used in book 7 (A Palette For Murder), where police Chief Cramer tells Jessica at one point that there's an influential person pressing behind the scenes for him to cooperate with her and her theories. After the mystery is solved, they're revealed to be her publisher, Vaughn Buckley, who knew he couldn't stop her from poking around and so decided to help out in his own way by encouraging the cops to accept her aid.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
Murder, She Wrote / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: People drop dead around Jessica everywhere she goes. Everywhere. It's creepy. A The BBC radio show called More or Less in 2012 calculated that Cabot Cove has a murder rate of 149 per 10,000; by comparison, the most murderous place in the world at the time, Honduras, had a murder rate of 91 per 10,000, making Cabot Cove the deadliest place in the world. And that's not counting the murders that happen outside Cabot Cove... Lampshaded in "One Good Bid Deserves Another" when police lieutenant Casey threatens to arrest Jessica if he finds her near another body. "If murder were a disease," he tells her, "you'd be contagious." Lampshaded again by Sheriff Metzger, a former New York cop who, after a year as the sheriff of Cabot Cove, asks Jessica, "What goes on in this town? I've been here one year and this is my fifth murder!"
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Murder, She Wrote / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Murder, She Wrote / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me
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Murder, She Wrote / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
Murder, She Wrote / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Plenty appear, due to making good suspects.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
Murder, She Wrote / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: The show relishes having unexpected or seemingly unblemished characters turn out to be the killers; but every now and then, there's someone with motive and opportunity who seems a little too good to be true but is in fact innocent and an ally. Examples include Cynthia Broussard in "Big Easy Murder," Clare in "The Bottom Line is Murder," Harcourt Fention in "The Committee," Mickey Shannon in "Murder at the Oasis," Arthur Constable in "It Runs in the Family," Peggy Evans in "Frozen Stiff," and Inspector Kyle in "Paint Me a Murder."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Murder, She Wrote / int_1777688d	comment	They poked at the edges of the trope; there were a number of recurring Cabot Covers beyond Jess, Doc Hazlitt and the sheriff, and even two episodes where one of these recurring characters was the murderer, which the Genre Savvy know isn't supposed to happen.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_19384952	type	Master Forger
Murder, She Wrote / int_19384952	comment	Master Forger: The plot of book 7 (A Palette For Murder) revolves around an art forgery ring, who've focused on creating new paintings supposedly from a now-deceased artist.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1b4ea159	type	The Alibi
Murder, She Wrote / int_1b4ea159	comment	The Alibi: A plot point in the solution to book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder). Jake Walthers has his brother-in-law Dennis say that Jake and Dennis were working together on repairing a fence at the time of the murder; Dennis later says this was a lie that he was intimidated into making, and that he and his sister Mary were really the ones working together. It comes out in the end that the first story was true, and that Mary is the one who shot Rory Brent.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Murder, She Wrote / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Jessica's novels; several of the titles are named in the series, such as her first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight. Some of the actual crimes are also solved with these providing key evidence.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
Murder, She Wrote / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: A struggling writer creates a fictitious agent to represent him. This lie keeps snowballing, and ends with the agent being accused of murder, at which point the writer is exposed and arrested.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1f268108	type	Mystery Writer Detective
Murder, She Wrote / int_1f268108	comment	Mystery Writer Detective: Jessica Fletcher, of course.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Murder, She Wrote / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Jessica gets involved in a murder centered around a set of photo negatives that prove the involvement of an organized crime figure in the Kennedy assassination. At the end of the episode, the negatives are lost in the harbour and the mob boss dies trying to escape the police, with the implication that someone might have tampered with his brakes.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Murder, She Wrote / int_1fc85456	comment	Hopeless with Tech: Joked about in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder) when Jessica walks in on lawyer Joe Turco, who's trying without much success to program his new fax machine. And he claims he's even worse when it comes to programming VCRs.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Murder, She Wrote / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Sheriff Metzger. He's a perfectly competent lawman from New York who follows the general procedure that the most likely suspect is the one who did it (a process that in real life often holds true). Unfortunately, he's in a murder mystery series where it's always the least likely suspect who committed the crime. A lot of the members of the police force that Jessie works with are the same if they aren't completely useless.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Murder, She Wrote / int_20d965e	comment	The most common of these were Keith Mitchell as high society jewel thief (later insurance investigator) Dennis Stanton, and Jerry Orbach as Harry McGraw (who even got his own spinoff), though he more often appeared as a Deuteragonist with Jessica.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_21304649	type	This Bear Was Framed
Murder, She Wrote / int_21304649	comment	This Bear Was Framed: The Victim of the Week is injected with black mamba venom. The killer then unlocks the black mamba's cage so it will look like the victim was bitten by the escaped snake.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
Murder, She Wrote / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: The neighbour owns an angry guard dog that barks at anyone who comes on his property. Its behaviour on the night of the murder provides Jessica with a vital clue; this may also be a Shout-Out to the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of Silver Blaze.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Murder, She Wrote / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), the investigators come to realize that the murder of Harry Schrumm was a set-up to make it look like the Broadway killer, who'd already murdered four times by the time Schrumm's body was discovered, was responsible.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_22793d67	type	Terrifying Pet Store Rat
Murder, She Wrote / int_22793d67	comment	Terrifying Pet Store Rat: A seedy alley is portrayed by the presence of a couple of sleek and well-groomed pet store rats. At least they are brown and not white.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Murder, She Wrote / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Inevitably, at some point in an episode, the camera focuses just a little longer than necessary on something utterly random and mundane that turns out to be significant regarding the identity of the killer. Occasionally, this happens even before the actual murder does.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Murder, She Wrote / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: There's no other possible explanation for why people continue to want to be Jessica's friends and neighbors.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Murder, She Wrote / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Jessica had no children, but many nieces and nephews. Grady Fletcher was the main repeater among them. As noted above, it's explained in a few episodes that Grady was orphaned as a little boy and was raised by Jessica and Frank; as their surrogate son, he had good reason to be a repeater. Jessica's other repeating relatives were a niece and nephew-in-law, played by Genie Francis and Jeff Conaway, who had a continuing thread about him wanting to be in the entertainment business.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Murder, She Wrote / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Book 14 (Trick or Treachery) has Artie Sack, a local gardener for hire, who tends to say all or part of his sentences twice.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2906a53b	type	Again with Feeling
Murder, She Wrote / int_2906a53b	comment	Again with Feeling: This is very common. It's often paired Jessica Fletcher having a "Eureka!" Moment. Often, she makes a casual statement about something unrelated to the crime at hand, then realize how it proves the culprit's guilt and triumphantly repeats herself before rushing off to share her findings with the police.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Murder, She Wrote / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: Book 14 (Trick or Treachery), which takes place in late October and revolves around the Halloween season.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2ba89e01	type	The Joy of First Flight
Murder, She Wrote / int_2ba89e01	comment	The Joy of First Flight: Book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) kicks off with Jessica taking her first flying lesson from Jed Richardson in his Cesna. After landing, she describes it to Seth Hazlitt as "Wonderful" and "A special feeling, so free, so liberating."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2d1d46bb	type	Lotsa People Try to Dun It
Murder, She Wrote / int_2d1d46bb	comment	Lotsa People Try to Dun It: The first Victim of the Week was shot by his wife, who then fainted. The murderer — having witnessed the shooting — came in to help, and saw a Briefcase Full of Money owned by the husband. Realizing the husband had been deceptive in off-screen dealings, the killer smothered him with a Vorpal Pillow. When the wife awoke, she discovered her husband dead and — assuming she had killed him — attempted to cover up the crime by making it look like a robbery gone wrong. The real murderer later killed the wife to make it look like she had committed suicide out of guilt, and to keep her from remembering the missing briefcase and realizing there was someone else there.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2d3016e8	type	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty
Murder, She Wrote / int_2d3016e8	comment	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: In book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), this is why Jake Walther has locked himself in his house — he firmly believes that the town has already convicted him in their own minds and won't believe he's innocent under any circumstances, so there's no point in defending himself. This belief is only reinforced after he's taken into custody.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Murder, She Wrote / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), the killers specifically use tools from the stables to throw suspicion on the horse wranglers (and got another person to plant a wood rasp, identical to the first murder weapon, in a spot where it would be found as part of this).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2d717e11	type	Suicide, Not Murder
Murder, She Wrote / int_2d717e11	comment	Suicide, Not Murder: In book 4 (Brandy and Bullets), after a patient at the Worrel Institute commits suicide via gunshot, a second one nearly overdoses on pills; luckily, she's rushed to the hospital, gets her stomach pumped, and survives the experience. It turns out this really was a genuine attempted suicide, rather than being caused by the Institute's experiments in hypnosis like the first victim and a later attempted victim. In book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem), Brett Pearl jumps to his death off the Golden Gate Bridge the same day that Jessica was nearly pushed to her death. By the end of the book, it's been confirmed that he'd done so on purpose and the book's villains had nothing to do with it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2d97c18b	type	Pool Scene
Murder, She Wrote / int_2d97c18b	comment	Pool Scene: "Murder in Milan" features several gratuitous scenes set around the pool at the film festival, featuring a multitude of bikini-clad extras.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2e121b44	comment	Southern Gentleman: Robert Mercer, the victim in the TV movie The Last Free Man (a Whole Episode Flashback to the beginning of The American Civil War) is a Sharp-Dressed Man, impeccably civil to even those he disagrees with, and an opponent of the war on both moral and practical grounds, with the final act also revealing that he was an Underground Railroad conductor. His father in-law Charles Hobbes is a more negative version: he stops the whipping of a slave, but only because it's making a scene, while showing signs of vicious racism and ruthlessness when there's fewer people around. In the main series, Seth's southern cousin Buford dresses and talks the part, and is a bit smarmy but not terribly flawed as far as victims on this show go.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2e13acd1	type	Occam's Razor
Murder, She Wrote / int_2e13acd1	comment	Occam's Razor: One case has a nasty version of this until you realize that the woman who made this 'mistake' is that episode's perp and is shifting blame away from herself. Before The Reveal, it's just jarring. Basically, Jessica returns home to hear her phone ringing, but it disconnects before she can answer it. Soon after, she's subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal court over the disappearance of a person she doesn't know. Does the prosecutor just accept that Jessica doesn't know who it is and that it's a wrong number as Jessica finds out while snooping around the victim's office? No, she charges Jessica with contempt of court and has her thrown in jail for a night. Even if she was just trying to frame someone else, if the prosecutor had just gone along and admitted that it was a wrong phone number rather than haul Jessica to the witness stand, she would've gotten away with it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Murder, She Wrote / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: Dennis Stanton pulls this trick in "Murder in F Sharp". He comes up with a theory of how the murder could have been committed, but it hinges on proving the suspect could have fired a gun. Stanton pulls a Bluffing the Murderer moment by pretending to have more information than he has, and attempts to blackmail him. When the murderer pulls a gun and fires it, Stanton then reveals that he broke in the night before and switched the shells for blanks.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Murder, She Wrote / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach (Harry McGraw) were old friends from their days on Broadway. They also worked together in Beauty and the Beast as the voices of Mrs. Potts and Lumiere, respectively. In addition, occasional guest star David Ogden Stiers also co-starred in Beauty and the Beast as well, voicing Cogsworth. Tom Bosley as Amos Tupper is also notable, since he played Angela Lansbury's husband in The World of Henry Orient. Angela's costars from Sweeney Todd, Len Cariou and George Hearn, both show up as regular guest stars: Len as Michael Hagarty, the MI5 agent, and George as various characters. Hurd Hatfield, her costar from "Dorian Gray," also shows up in a few episodes.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Murder, She Wrote / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Grady and Donna's son, Frankie, is named after Jessica's late husband.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_30725d31	type	Medication Tampering
Murder, She Wrote / int_30725d31	comment	Medication Tampering: The playwright has his sedatives swapped for powerful anti-depressives as part of a Gaslighting scheme.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Murder, She Wrote / int_3255968b	comment	In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), the play's director Cyrus Walpole gets a threatening letter saying "You're next", handed to him by the theater's security guard after an unknown person gave it to him, which he takes as an Implied Death Threat. Linda Amstead later admits she's received a similar threatening letter.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Murder, She Wrote / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: After appearing (even if it's just a brief mention) in every previous book in the series, Sheriff Mort Metzger isn't so much as name-dropped in book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), even during the scenes set in Cabot Cove.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_340e75cb	type	Writing Indentation Clue
Murder, She Wrote / int_340e75cb	comment	Writing Indentation Clue: Jessica does this to reveal what the Victim of the Week had written down on the pad by the phone just before he was murdered.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
Murder, She Wrote / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: Discussed in book 1 (Gin and Daggers) as a motive for Marjorie Ainsworth's murder; Jessica, who found the body, was named in her will, and someone tells her that this makes her a main suspect. Naturally, she didn't do it and didn't even know she was in the will until that particular conversation — upon learning that she's an heir, she immediately voices her intention to donate her share to charity (and repeats this at the will-reading). A variant in book 6 (A Deadly Judgement). The late James Brannigan had established a trust for his children, but included a clause stating that if his younger son William were ever to be charged with a crime involving "moral turpitude", James' older brother Jack could dissolve the trust and receive all the money himself. When William is charged with Jack's murder, the defense claims that Jack had threatened to dissolve the trust after William supposedly raped a woman, and William murdered him to protect his inheritance. He didn't do either of these things, as it turns out — Jack was framing William so he could claim the money for himself, and one of his co-conspirators murdered him when he reneged on a promise to share it with them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Murder, She Wrote / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Ellery Queen as a middle-aged female.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_377effa6	type	My Own Private "I Do"
Murder, She Wrote / int_377effa6	comment	My Own Private "I Do": Michael Hagerty performs a private wedding ceremony for a couple so they can escape the attentions of an overly protective Mafia family. Of course, Hagerty is only posing as a priest...
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Murder, She Wrote / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Murder, She Wrote / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: In everything but intent. When Angela Lansbury started to tire of the pace of a weekly network show, a strategy was devised that would allow the network to do a full season without Lansbury having to do a full season. Slightly more than half of the episodes of the season would be full adventures of Jessica Fletcher. The remainder would be Poorly Disguised Pilots, for which Lansbury, as Fletcher, would film bookend sequences, explaining the new character we'd be seeing for the next hour. Sometimes these were Jessica's own fictional characters, but other times they were friends or relations of Jessica's, such as Dennis Stanton. They weren't really intended to spin-off any of the characters — although if any were exceptionally successful, why not?
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Murder, She Wrote / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
Murder, She Wrote / int_38bf28e3	comment	Engineered Public Confession: The standard format has Jessica Bluffing the Murderer into confessing in the mistaken belief that it is Just Between You and Me, when she's arranged for a police officer or other responsible person to be in the next room.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Murder, She Wrote / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: Surprisingly averted for a show focused on murders and generally populated by adults who are focused on anything but video games (save one episode where the murder occurred at a virtual reality game developer). In one early episode, Jessica's friend Ethan is playing a Spy Hunter (1983) arcade game. When footage of the game is shown, it is perfectly accurate, complete with the player's hands making movements and the vehicle on screen matching them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Murder, She Wrote / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem), while delivering a lecture to a high school class on public relations, Jessica is asked who she'd like to play her in a film version of her book. After suggesting Vivian Leigh or Jean Fontaine, Jessica adds "Of course, I'd be pleased if Angela Lansbury played me in a film version of my book."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3a5c70a3	type	Script Swap
Murder, She Wrote / int_3a5c70a3	comment	Script Swap: Done in one episode with an aging actor whose memory is so bad he has to rely on the teleprompter. While this looks like an Engineered Public Confession, it is actually a ploy on Jessica's part to trick the real killer into exposing themselves.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3b581a6	type	Forced Out of the Closet
Murder, She Wrote / int_3b581a6	comment	Forced Out of the Closet: Attempted in book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem). Unable to cope with the idea of being out of the closet and what he thinks will be his very religious family's response, Brett Pearl chooses to commit suicide rather than be exposed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Murder, She Wrote / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: Is Jessica Fletcher visiting your town or home? One of three things is going to happen. You'll either be killed, accused of killing, or be revealed as a killer. Being accused is your best bet, as Jessica will invariably prove you innocent when she reveals the real killer. Lampshaded more than once. In "Witness for the Defense," a prosecutor tries to discredit Jessica's testimony by listing her nieces and nephews who have been arrested for murder in the last two years (one of them for two different murders). In certain other situations, Jessica finds herself stuck solving crimes that happened years, if not decades, before she ever entered the picture, alongside the brand new deaths that happen when she enters the vicinity.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3c850ac7	type	Room Disservice
Murder, She Wrote / int_3c850ac7	comment	Room Disservice: A thuggish Loan Shark forces his way into Jessica's hotel room by posing as room service.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Murder, She Wrote / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Book 7 (A Palette For Murder) features multiple deaths, at least two of which were this — the victim died from a heart attack triggered by ricin, a poison that's usually only detected if the coroner is specifically looking for it, but the coroner (who isn't involved in the killings) writes them off as a normal heart attack until they're convinced to do another autopsy on one victim (and lab analysis on their cigarettes), confirming the cause.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Murder, She Wrote / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Mostly played straight, though it should be noted that this was subverted from time to time. Earlier seasons, strangely enough, played with the formula more than later ones.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_3fc3406b	type	Haggis Is Horrible
Murder, She Wrote / int_3fc3406b	comment	Haggis Is Horrible: In book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders), one chapter ends shortly after Jessica is told that they're serving haggis for dinner. She reluctantly admits to her host George Sutherland that "I'm afraid I might not like it." Fortunately, George just laughs it off and says that he knows of its negative reputation. He then says that they serve it once a week for those adventurous enough, but he always tells the chef to have plenty of plain roasted chicken on hand just in case.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_421a2df5	type	Mysterious Note
Murder, She Wrote / int_421a2df5	comment	Mysterious Note: In the opening chapter of book 3 (Rum and Razors), Jessica's been getting strange notes, all consisting of a single line — "GLOTCOYB", each time followed by varying punctuation (none on the first, a question mark on the second, a comma on the third, a period on the fourth and three exclamation points on the fifth). Shortly after finishing her latest manuscript, she sees a group of people outside her home, holding a banner with the same word. It turns out to be her friends Dr. Seth Hazlitt and Sheriff Morton Metzger, plus some other locals, who reveal "GLOTCOYB" is actually an acronym for "Good luck on the completion of your book". Jessica is both irked and relieved, since the pranks had actually been making her rather nervous, to the point where she answered the door that day with a fire poker in hand to ward off any potential threats. In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), the play's director Cyrus Walpole gets a threatening letter saying "You're next", handed to him by the theater's security guard after an unknown person gave it to him, which he takes as an Implied Death Threat. Linda Amstead later admits she's received a similar threatening letter.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_438e94fa	type	Never the Obvious Suspect
Murder, She Wrote / int_438e94fa	comment	Never the Obvious Suspect: Usually played straight, especially if the accused is a friend or relative of Jessica's. Occasionally it's subverted, such as in "Deadpan", where the elitist theatre critic accused of murdering his rival turns out to have done the deed and framed himself in order to make it look like someone else did it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
Murder, She Wrote / int_44c279ae	comment	"Jessica Behind Bars" subverts this and then plays it straight. The first victim was a Guilt-Ridden Accomplice who actually committed suicide. The circumstances of her death and the pilfering of a suicide note made it at first appear to be murder. However, the second victim was in fact killed because she was a loose thread that may have led to the reveal behind why the first victim took her life.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Murder, She Wrote / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Some furs show up.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Murder, She Wrote / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: This is part of the motive for murder in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), where Jill Walthers is revealed to have gotten pregnant by Robert Brent during her senior year of high school. Despite his father trying to force her into getting an abortion, she instead covered up the pregnancy, gave birth and had her daughter adopted.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Murder, She Wrote / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), Jessica discovers that the recently deceased Matilda Swift is actually the sister of Tony Scott, whom she'd only recently reunited with when he died. His son, her nephew Jeremy, doesn't learn they're related until sometime after Matilda's murder.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
Murder, She Wrote / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: Three, as it turns out, in book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead). Jill Factor, one of the financial backers for the play, killed Harry Schrumm because he was siphoning money she and her husband desperately needed from the production, while her husband Arnold bribed the doorman Vic Righetti and later killed and robbed him. The serial killer who's been targeting people who work on Broadway, meanwhile, is revealed as Jenny Forrest, one of the play's actors.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Murder, She Wrote / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Grady, Frank and Jessica's nephew, was orphaned young and raised by his loving childless aunt and uncle. Grady is absolutely devoted to Jessica and names his son after Frank.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Murder, She Wrote / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: When attempting to cover up a murder, an MI-5 agent is forced to push the body out of a hotel window to make it look like he'd jumped.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4a5fb630	type	Post-Robbery Trauma
Murder, She Wrote / int_4a5fb630	comment	Post-Robbery Trauma: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), after Paul Molloy is found dead and Jessica has to tell his wife, Geraldine has a slight panic attack and runs back inside, hiding in the bedroom and then comes out of the cabin with a revolver (she later claims it's because she heard someone in the cabin; she did, but it was just Jessica, who'd gone inside because she was worried about the other woman). She later explains to the local sheriff's department that it was her husband's, who had it because of this trope — he'd been attacked a year or so back and bought it for protection. It's never confirmed if this was true or not after it comes out that she's a government agent and their "marriage" is just a cover story.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Murder, She Wrote / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Harry Pierce, a real estate agent, is a recurring character for the first half of season two, until his third appearance where he murders a woman to get his hands on her property. Lest you think he's new to villainy, he also burned a building down a year prior.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Murder, She Wrote / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: How a culprit is caught in book 6 (A Deadly Judgement). William Brannigan says he thinks the same person killed his brother Jack and his girlfriend Cynthia, because both were killed by a single stab to the heart. However, the details of Cynthia's murder were kept out of the news, meaning William could have only known how she died if he did it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4b1cb197	type	Spiteful Will
Murder, She Wrote / int_4b1cb197	comment	Spiteful Will: Used in book 1 (Gin and Daggers), where murder victim Marjorie Ainsworth uses her will to insult several of her heirs, including leaving a massive debt to her sister and brother-in-law (apparently he'd spent a great deal of her money at certain establishments and now she wants him to pay the bills they sent her with his own funds), and claiming that several of her associates involved in publishing her works in both Britain and the U.S. had been stealing a portion of her royalties. It's subverted for her niece (and primary caretaker) and Jessica Fletcher, who both receive compliments and large sums from her.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Murder, She Wrote / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: The climax of book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder) reveals that Jake Walther has been trying to take the blame for Rory Brent's murder when it's actually Jake's wife Mary who did it. In the end though, the true culprit is exposed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Murder, She Wrote / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The events of book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders) turn out to involve this, with Evan Lochbuie, Constable Horace McKay, Malcolm James and, to some extent, his girlfriend Fiona — though she was only used to record a taped message, and didn't know what was really going on — all working to inspire fear in the locals and drive George Sutherland out of his castle so a group of investors could buy it. During the climax of book 14 (Trick or Treachery), Jessica arranges for an actress to show up dressed as the ghost of Hepzibah Cabot as part of her plan to expose Tony Scott's killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4db582d6	type	Defector from Commie Land
Murder, She Wrote / int_4db582d6	comment	Defector from Commie Land: The whole plot of book 10 (Murder in Moscow) revolves around Jessica being used as a messenger and a means to allow a Russian defector to, for her own safety, escape Moscow and travel to America.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Murder, She Wrote / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), the first victim — Paul Molloy — is stabbed to death with a wood rasp. The second, his wife Geraldine, is killed with another tool — a hammer specifically designed for shoeing horses.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Murder, She Wrote / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Naturally on a show about people dropping dead, solving the case doesn't necessarily bring peace, such as in episodes where the murderer was themselves a victim of that week's Asshole Victim, when the murder happened to cover up an even worse event, or the revelation of the killer is particularly traumatic to the survivor left behind. The pilot film shows Jessica being so determined to get to the truth that she chooses to confirm that her publisher and potential new flame was the killer. She appeals to his better side to get him to turn himself in, but she's clearly heartbroken. "Murder to a Jazz Beat" ends with pretty much everyone Jessica meets dead or in jail when their tough pasts catch up to them. Plus the murderer in this case was a man who discovered that the Asshole Victim was planning to kill his wife. Since she refused to believe him when he tried to reveal the plot, the murderer chose to simply kill the Asshole Victim with the poison intended for his wife. This is on top of the fact that the episode covered their extremely tough lives. "Funeral at Fifty Mile" ends with Jessica convincing the true murderers to turn themselves in in exchange for not revealing that the Asshole Victim was the biological father, via rape, of the person the murderers had been trying to protect from him. "Sing A Song of Murder" ends with the murderer sobbing in her father's arms as she confesses that she tried to kill the woman he loved. His tragic stare at realizing what his daughter has done and that he will lose her to jail ends the episode. In "Hannigan's Wake", Jessica discovers the culprit of the sixteen-year-old murder case she solved was JR, the son of the very police chief she'd been working with the whole time. JR became a Dirty Cop a few years after graduating police school due to the stress and ended up accidentally killing the Victim of the Week over drug money he was owed by her brother. The victim's husband was falsley arrested for the crime and JR guiltily cleaned up his act afterwards, but was killed in a shootout a few years later. The chief admits he covered up the truth and let an innocent man stay in prison for sixteen years due to the love of his son; he begs Jessica to let JR's good name stand and not break his mother's heart. The episode ends with her calmly asking a friend for a ride to the police station and walking away, while the chief tearfully watches her go.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Murder, She Wrote / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: It's impossible to count the number of killers who have Jessica alone and at their mercy, gloating on the murder and how as soon as she's dead, they're free and clear... and then Jessica calmly calls out, "Did you get all that, Detective?"
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Murder, She Wrote / int_4ea822ce	type	Songs in the Key of Lock
Murder, She Wrote / int_4ea822ce	comment	Songs in the Key of Lock: The killers set up a system which, when the Victim of the Week plays a certain chord on the piano, unlocks the secretary behind him and fires the gun hidden within.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_502b147b	type	Playing Drunk
Murder, She Wrote / int_502b147b	comment	Playing Drunk: Jessica, in a few episodes, as noted above.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Murder, She Wrote / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: Referenced for laughs in book 14 (Trick or Treachery), when Jessica makes plans to meet with Mort Metzger and asks if he wants her to pick up doughnuts on the way. Mort jokingly responds with "Sure thing. Doughnuts are one of the basic food groups in law enforcement.", eliciting a laugh from Jessica.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Murder, She Wrote / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Enforced by the show's format. If the episode doesn't open with a murder and seems to start with a different crime, expect someone to turn up dead later so Jessica has to work through not only the other crimes but a murder as well. There's a few notable exceptions: "Just Another Fish Story" and "Footnote to Murder": Self-defense. "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee": Suicide staged to look like murder to frame a longtime enemy for the crime. "The Christmas Mystery": Attempted murder; the victim survives. "Test of Wills": The victim attempted to take a gun off someone who was attempting suicide and was accidentally shot. The attempt to cover it up may push it into criminal manslaughter territory. Inverted in one episode where the victim's death is thought to be the result of medical malpractice and her doctor is about to be either sued for this or arrested for manslaughter/negligent homicide. Further investigation, however, determines that she was poisoned, meaning it is a murder after all. "Jessica Behind Bars" subverts this and then plays it straight. The first victim was a Guilt-Ridden Accomplice who actually committed suicide. The circumstances of her death and the pilfering of a suicide note made it at first appear to be murder. However, the second victim was in fact killed because she was a loose thread that may have led to the reveal behind why the first victim took her life. "Mirror Mirror On The Wall" also toys with this. Played straight with the first victim, but the second victim (Jessica's friend Seth) survives. Inverted then played straight on "Sing a Song of Murder" where after multiple attempts on her life, Jessica's cousin Emma fakes her own death. Later in the episode however, Emma's assistant is killed, the murderer mistakenly believing her to be Emma.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Murder, She Wrote / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: The climax of book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) reveals that the second murder victim, Geraldine Jankowski, was actually an undercover government agent who'd come to the ranch to capture an international arms dealer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
Murder, She Wrote / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: The Victim of the Week hides the stolen page from a manuscript within the pages of another book.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Murder, She Wrote / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: This trope doesn't usually come up, but there are some episodes where the Asshole Victim had someone who carries on their dirty work after their death, like "Murder At The Oasis", or the murderer has someone who helps them carry out their deeds, like "Jessica Behind Bars".
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Murder, She Wrote / int_53fe38a0	type	"Rear Window" Witness
Murder, She Wrote / int_53fe38a0	comment	"Rear Window" Witness: A friend of Jessica's witnesses a murder on her television when a mislaid cable sends a video feed from the apartment downstairs to her set.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5466745d	type	Clear Their Name
Murder, She Wrote / int_5466745d	comment	Clear Their Name: Book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder) revolves around Jessica trying, successfully, to clear the name of Jake Walther, an enemy of the murdered man and the obvious suspect.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
Murder, She Wrote / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: Mentioned in passing in book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) — Jim Cook notes to Jessica that the local sheriff's department recently solved an old case involving a murder from seventeen years ago, in which the killer was already doing twenty years for armed robbery by the time they were identified as the killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Murder, She Wrote / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Used for pretty much any driving scene during the entire run of the show. Not really noteworthy in the early seasons when this was common practice, but it does stand out in the late seasons as Chroma Key had essentially become a standard on other shows.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Murder, She Wrote / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: In book 9 (Murder on the QE2), Mort mentions on the phone to Jessica that he'd had to stop a speeding tourist earlier, and that the tourist had said that being a small-town cop, Mort probably doesn't get paid much... then tried to bribe him with a twenty-dollar bill. Mort not only arrested him, he added attempted bribery to the man's existing charges of speeding and reckless endangerment. Jessica very much approves.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Murder, She Wrote / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Several episodes follow someone other than Jessica solving murders their own way, but still keeping in with the show's formula. They range from characters seen in previous episodes to someone totally different who's never been seen before. Sometimes they're even the characters from Jessica's books. As noted below, this became a bit more common in later seasons in order to lighten Angela Lansbury's workload; episodes using her characters were usually introduced by Jessica working on edits or otherwise explaining to the audience what they were about to see. The most common of these were Keith Mitchell as high society jewel thief (later insurance investigator) Dennis Stanton, and Jerry Orbach as Harry McGraw (who even got his own spinoff), though he more often appeared as a Deuteragonist with Jessica.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Murder, She Wrote / int_59907e4f	comment	A lot of the members of the police force that Jessie works with are the same if they aren't completely useless.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Murder, She Wrote / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Book 4 (Brandy and Bullets) revolves around the CIA secretly backing an institute that experiments with hypnosis and seeing how effective it is at turning more creative people into their unwitting agents. Naturally, they officially deny all involvement when it's exposed, and put the blame entirely on the doctors running the place.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Murder, She Wrote / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: A couple of murderers kill their victims because their victim had something to do with their child's death.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
Murder, She Wrote / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Not so much a baby, but in book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Jessica notes the physical similarities between teenage Pauline Morrison and one of the other guests at the ranch. It eventually comes out that he's her biological father, one of the two men her mother Veronica was cheating on her husband with.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Murder, She Wrote / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: A legendary maestro has been guardian to a musical prodigy for 10 years. He announces his intention to marry her (despite her clear lack of interest) when she turns 18. This provides one of the possible motives for his murder when he becomes the Victim of the Week.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5e8332c	type	Underground Railroad
Murder, She Wrote / int_5e8332c	comment	Underground Railroad: The TV Movie The Last Free Man has both murder victim Robert Mercer and the slave of Jessica's ancestor involved in this.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Murder, She Wrote / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: Book 6 (A Deadly Judgement) revolves around Jessica serving as a jury consultant, working for the plaintiff's defense. She drops out after realizing that he'd committed a different murder and exposing his crime to the judge.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Murder, She Wrote / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), the last two pages of the final chapter jump ahead to a year later, when Jessica, Seth and some friends return to Powderhorn Ranch for another vacation — this time without any murders or other untoward happenings. It also confirms that the book's killers were found guilty and sent to prison.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Murder, She Wrote / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Jessica is a master at subverting this trope. Often when she only has a hunch and no concrete evidence of someone's guilt, she sets things up so that the perpetrator believes it's such a situation when in fact she has the cops ready and waiting.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Murder, She Wrote / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In one episode, Seth Hazlitt sees his brother for the first time in many years. It eventually comes out that both Seth and his brother had fallen in love with the same woman; Seth's response was to leave town, so that his brother and the woman he loved could marry and be happy without him being in the way. He went on to have a happy marriage of his own, so he has no regrets, but he and his brother were estranged for many years as a result. Naturally, when his brother becomes the Victim of the Week, Seth is the prime suspect.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6065ea75	type	Does Not Drive
Murder, She Wrote / int_6065ea75	comment	Does Not Drive: Jessica, per the TV series. It becomes a plot point in book 4 (Brandy and Bullets), when Jessica agrees to be hypnotized on stage at a club, but the hypnotist makes the mistake of trying to have her picture herself driving down a beach. She instantly recognizes something's off and has a panic attack in her trance, losing control of the car, until the hypnotist snaps her out of it (luckily, Seth was there to inform the hypnotist of the mistake).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Murder, She Wrote / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: "The Celtic Riddle", "Nan's Ghost", "A Killing in Cork", "Another Killing in Cork", "The Wind Around the Tower", and "To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee" (set in New York but involving an Irish blood feud)...
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Murder, She Wrote / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Murder, She Wrote / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), during the children's annual Halloween pageant, Matilda Swift shoots one of these at paranormal investigator Lucas Tremaine. He gives her one right back in return.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Murder, She Wrote / int_644eca71	comment	She must be well-off enough because in "We're Off to Kill the Wizard" she gives away the million-dollar check the victim's Rich Bitch wife wrote to her to solve the murder to his secretary he treated like crap.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_64b42bc4	type	Christmas Creep
Murder, She Wrote / int_64b42bc4	comment	Christmas Creep: Discussed briefly in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), as Jessica hears a radio announcement that there's only twenty-three shopping days before Christmas, and thinks to herself that "Christmas seemed to start earlier and earlier each year". She also notes that she doesn't like the trend, but doesn't dwell on it because there's nothing she can do about it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_68fd2d6c	type	Coax Them Out of the Closet
Murder, She Wrote / int_68fd2d6c	comment	Coax Them Out of the Closet: In book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem) of the Expanded Universe novel series, Norman Lana is the boyfriend of the late Brett Pearl, and is revealed to have tried repeatedly to get Brett to come out to his very religious family. Norman ultimately took it a step further, threatening to call Brett's parents and inform them of Brett's sexuality, with fatal results — Brett, unable to cope with what he thought would be their response, chose to throw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge rather than be outed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
Murder, She Wrote / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: The episode opens with an ex-husband stealing his beloved Ferrari off his ex-wife and deliberately wrecking it. The episode ends with his release from jail and the ex-wife coming to pick him up in a new Ferrari with a bow on its bonnet.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6ae754f4	type	Hidden Wire
Murder, She Wrote / int_6ae754f4	comment	Hidden Wire: Jessica does this several times as part of her Engineered Public Confessions.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Murder, She Wrote / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: The Victim of the Week is killed when she is shoved backwards into a glass fronted cabinet during a struggle with her killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Murder, She Wrote / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: The Victim of the Week is in a phone booth talking to their police contact when the killer rams a car through the booth.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Murder, She Wrote / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Brett Pearl, the only person to die during the events of book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem), had a fight with his boyfriend, who wanted Brett to come out to his parents. The subsequent breakup and Brett's fear of how his family would react to his sexuality led to his throwing himself off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6dec2f19	type	Swiss-Army Weapon
Murder, She Wrote / int_6dec2f19	comment	Swiss-Army Weapon: As noted elsewhere on the page, Dennis Stanton's umbrella. It has, among other things, a dart launcher in the tip, and the handle seems to have both a blade attachment and a lock pick. That's not including Stanton's own expertise with it as a weapon on its own.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Murder, She Wrote / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: The show rolls the end credits on Jessica's laugh in roughly 99% of the episodes. The few which don't end with her laughing (such as the pilot) end instead with a freeze shot of her astonished face as she realizes something important or is taken by surprise in some way.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Murder, She Wrote / int_6ec4232f	comment	"Trial by Error": There's something really ironic about Brock Peters as a juror most steadfastly convinced that the man on trial is guilty.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Murder, She Wrote / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Used to kill the Victim of the Week (who had already been shot).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_71a3a3c0	type	Fully Absorbed Finale
Murder, She Wrote / int_71a3a3c0	comment	Fully Absorbed Finale: The "bookend episode" The Grand Old Lady was actually an unfilmed series finale script from a previously-produced and cut short Ellery Queen series, albeit with the characters slightly changed to dance around rights issues. Both series were produced by Levinson and Link, and they apparently decided not to let a good script go to waste.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Murder, She Wrote / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: A playwright friend of Jessica's is being gaslighted to convince him that he is being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Murder, She Wrote / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), one has been targeting people who work on Broadway, having taken out four people and posing them in ways similar to characters in the plays they're in. Most people come to believe Harry Schrumm is the killer's fifth victim. He's not — but Roy Richardson, who's murdered during the preview showing, is, with said killer turning out to be Jenny Forrest, one of the actors in the play.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
Murder, She Wrote / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: The murderer makes a confession to their second victim just before they kill them, not realizing that the victim had a tape recorder running on their desk as they had been recording comments on a manuscript when the killer entered the office. This results in the murderer's confession being Caught on Tape. note This could have been taken from Please Murder Me, a B movie that Angela did where her victim does the same thing.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Murder, She Wrote / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Sheriff Amos Tupper retired when Tom Bosley left to star in Father Dowling Mysteries.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Murder, She Wrote / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: More than a few people have mentioned that Jessica Fletcher could be considered an American Miss Marple. This is especially hilarious because Angela Lansbury has played both roles. In fact, the opening of "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" is practically a direct lift from the opening of The Mirror Crack'd, the film in which Lansbury played Miss Marple.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Murder, She Wrote / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: The Victim of the Week is the lead singer of a band who is electrocuted when someone tampers with his guitar.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
Murder, She Wrote / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: In book 7 (A Palette For Murder), Jessica learns after the killer is caught that one of the other people she suspected of being involved was actually a civilian who'd infiltrated the forgery ring. They turn out to be Waldine "Waldo" Peckham, who'd helped Jessica with part of the case before.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
Murder, She Wrote / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: When it is thought that a famous playwright has been murdered, his director remarks that his final, unpublished play will have a sellout season.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Murder, She Wrote / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: How the victim dies in book 3 (Rum and Razors). It's noted that a victim died this way in one of Jessica's recent books as well.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Murder, She Wrote / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Book 10 (Murder in Moscow) features a functioning variety with Jessica's new Russian publisher, Vladislav Staritova. He spends most of his time drinking vodka, but aside from a little slurred speech at times, is hardly ever inebriated by it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
Murder, She Wrote / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), while investigating the murder of Harry Schrumm, Jessica learns that the theater's doorman was bribed with two hundred dollars to leave his post for a few hours, during which time Schrumm was killed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
Murder, She Wrote / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: The novel series, which started back in 1989 and continues to the present day, with book 50 being released in 2019.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_7fc67b2b	type	Disinherited Child
Murder, She Wrote / int_7fc67b2b	comment	Disinherited Child: A variant in book 6 (A Deadly Judgement). The late James Brannigan had established a trust for his children, but included a clause stating that if his younger son William were ever to be charged with a crime involving "moral turpitude", James' older brother Jack could dissolve the trust and receive all the money himself. It's also claimed that William murdered Jack to prevent this, which is why he's on trial now. While it's proven that the rape charge was a setup on Jack's part, William still gets charged with murder after Saying Too Much and unwittingly revealing he'd killed someone other than Jack.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_80c1d538	type	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle
Murder, She Wrote / int_80c1d538	comment	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: The murderer uses a remote controlled station wagon to run over a pedestrian. While bicycling about a wooded area, Jessica discovers the murder weapon and decides to take a closer look at the station wagon's inner workings. Once inside, however, she becomes trapped when someone in a van operates the remote control device to lock her inside, to activate the automobile's engine, and to steer her away at a dangerous speed, en route to an overhang above the rocky seacoast.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Murder, She Wrote / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Frequently killing the Asshole Victim. Sometimes it's self-defense or accidental. A few notable examples: In "Murder Takes The Bus", the victim is a convicted bank robber freshly released from prison. During the robbery he had killed a teenage girl, and when her father confronts him he insults her, driving the father to strangle him to death. Jessica admits she feels bad for the killer, and suggests that he could make a good case for temporary insanity. In "A Very Good Year For Murder", the victim was a professional hitman. Jessica's friend had actually invited the hitman to his house as part of an admittedly foolish Thanatos Gambit, but then the hitman's sloppy attempt at murder badly injures the man's son instead, prompting the old man to off the hitman himself, confess everything to Jessica, and then attempt suicide. It's especially notable in that Jessica herself says that she would refuse to testify about his confession, as she sees no need for him to go to jail (he's terminally ill). Occasionally subverted, also, when the murderer loses the audience's sympathy by trying to frame someone else or trying to kill Jessica. A notable example happens in the very first episode, when the killer murders his blackmailer. Jessica admits she might have felt sympathy for him except that he then killed a second, completely innocent person, just to throw her off his trail.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Murder, She Wrote / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Used in book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem). The birth mother is such a monster that her daughter prefers her much nicer stepmother. This is part of why the birth mother subsequently framed the stepmother for murdering their husband.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Murder, She Wrote / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: In book 7 (A Palette For Murder), Jessica becomes acquainted with police Chief Cramer in the Hamptons. When she finally asks about his first name (having never gotten it before), he reluctantly admits that his first name is "Hopeful", "Hope" for short to his friends. As he confirms, his parents were optimists.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Murder, She Wrote / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: By no means all of them, but a fair amount (especially spouses of victims, such as Emily Griffith from "A Killing in Cork," whose Corrupt Corporate Executive husband hasn't slept with her in years, or occasional victims of Domestic Abuse). One unusual example of a victim being this is Tommy Vonn from "Murder in Tempo," a rock star who cheats on his wife and bandmate, but ultimately comes off as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who really does love the local girl he is romancing, and a recovering alcoholic who refuses a lucrative bribe to cancel an environmental benefit concert and was trying to make things up to his wife (who was also fed up with their marriage) by planning to let her take over as lead singer in the band.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Murder, She Wrote / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Jessica's maiden name (MacGill) was taken from the real maiden name of Angela Lansbury's own mother, Moyna Macgill.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
Murder, She Wrote / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), while discussing the history of Cabot Cove, it's explained that the town's founder, Winfred Cabot, was beheaded by his wife, who then threw his head and herself into the ocean.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Murder, She Wrote / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: "The Grand Old Lady" was revised from an unproduced Ellery Queen script, with Ellery replaced by expy Christy McGinn.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
Murder, She Wrote / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: One of Jessica's friends has been kidnapped and is lying Bound and Gagged in the back of the kidnappers' van. One of the kidnappers advances menacingly, takes out a switchblade and flicks the blade out. She then uses the knife to cut the victim's bonds and release her.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8b3e2519	type	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands
Murder, She Wrote / int_8b3e2519	comment	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands: Complete with one of the new characters dying in the episode they are introduced. Seems like Cabot Cove is the murder capital of the east coast. They poked at the edges of the trope; there were a number of recurring Cabot Covers beyond Jess, Doc Hazlitt and the sheriff, and even two episodes where one of these recurring characters was the murderer, which the Genre Savvy know isn't supposed to happen.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Murder, She Wrote / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders), Jessica excuses herself from an uncomfortable conversation about witches with "Excuse me, Doctor. I have to tell—something to—someone—over there." Downplayed in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder). At one point, in order to get away from a group of reporters who want to talk to her about the murder of Rory Brent, Jessica says she has to leave because she has an appointment. When Seth follows after her and asks where she's going, she claims she has to see the dentist. Seth isn't buying it because she just went a day or so before; she responds with "I feel a sudden toothache about to come on."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Murder, She Wrote / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Cabot Cove's first sheriff is Amos Tupper, an honest cop and a close friend of Jessica. He retires after the fourth season. Tupper is replaced by Sheriff Mort Metzger, a former NYPD detective who takes the job in the mistaken belief that the town is a peaceful place.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
Murder, She Wrote / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: Naturally, as with many Murder Mystery stories, the victims in various episodes are quite often universally despised and shown abusing multiple characters before their death, to provide more possibilities for who might have done the deed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Murder, She Wrote / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Jessica is revealed to have had an Identical Ancestor with similar talents — a Southern matron in Civil War times with modern views on emancipation for slaves.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
Murder, She Wrote / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Paul Molloy arrives at the Powderhorn Ranch with his wife Geraldine. It eventually comes out that they're faking it as a cover story — she's actually a government agent, while he was investigated for international arms dealing, but was let off because he agreed to help expose others who were in the same business. Unfortunately, this gets them both killed by an actual arms dealer and her associates.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8eb6b1f6	type	Paranormal Investigation
Murder, She Wrote / int_8eb6b1f6	comment	Paranormal Investigation: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), it's revealed that a man named Lucas Tremaine has moved to Cabot Cove and opened a paranormal investigation business that also helps people get in touch with their dead relatives. Seth Hazlitt thinks it's all a load of hooey, and Jessica later proves that at least some of the supernatural effects around town are because he faked them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Murder, She Wrote / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Turns out to be the case in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), where murder victim Rory Brent is ultimately revealed to have acted as a Loan Shark towards the Walthers (and had previously been involved in a group that did the same to other farmers) and was on the verge of claiming their farm when he was murdered. He also arranged for Jill Walther to go to a business that he expected would arrange for her to have an abortion (she didn't) of his own grandchild. Harry Schrumm in book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead). He apparently had a habit of siphoning money from productions and "ruining careers", including that of the star of his last film.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_8fed141a	type	Bloody Handprint
Murder, She Wrote / int_8fed141a	comment	Bloody Handprint: The stepson of the Victim of the Week discovers something is amiss when he finds a bloody handprint on the white wall of the beach house. He then follows a trail of handprints to find the body.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_927cce5e	type	Accidental Bid
Murder, She Wrote / int_927cce5e	comment	Accidental Bid: Charlie Garret is bidding on a painting, but drops out when the bidding passes $100,000. However, when he attempts to signal Jessica, he actually bids $400,000 and wins the auction.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
Murder, She Wrote / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: Variant in book 14 (Trick or Treachery), where the body of Matilda Swift is found in a graveyard and one of the deputies outlines the body with spray paint instead of chalk.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_93decddf	type	Ominous Owl
Murder, She Wrote / int_93decddf	comment	Ominous Owl: Especially in later seasons. (Also ominous loons and wolves sometimes, but mostly pre-murder hoots from nearby woods.)
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Murder, She Wrote / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Murder, She Wrote / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Jessica takes a lot of vacations, and death always follows her. It's entirely possible they started having her travel because Cabot Cove would have eventually run out of people.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
Murder, She Wrote / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: "Sticks and Stones", "Unauthorized Obituary", and "The Phantom Killer". There's also an electrified Jacuzzi in "The Way to Dusty Death".
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Murder, She Wrote / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Murder, She Wrote / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Some of the murderers suffer from this. Preston in "Death Stalks the Big Top" is possibly the most notable example.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Murder, She Wrote / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: In-Universe in book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), where Jessica's new book Knock 'Em Dead includes a character named Waldine, whom Jessica's narration notes is named for her friend Waldine Peckham.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_95f2d65e	type	DefrostingIceKing
Murder, She Wrote / int_95f2d65e	comment	Defrosting Ice King: Harry McGraw is incredibly cold towards Jessica when they first meet, in part due to the circumstances of their introduction. But after this first episode, they become good friends and he's more than willing to help her whenever she needs it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_96553833	type	Eagle-Eye Detection
Murder, She Wrote / int_96553833	comment	Eagle-Eye Detection: Jessica's ability to pay attention to minute details is usually what reveals the killer. In one example, Jessica notices that one character has been hiding his hand in his pocket since the murder because a dog bit him after he committed it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Murder, She Wrote / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Almost Once an Episode, or more. One notable example Jessica herself wasn't present for is in in "Jessica behind Bars" when The assistant warden trying to comfort the doctor after she gets asked some inquisitorial questions by their boss initially seems like a moment of kindness, but by the ending, is revealed to have been a nervous appeal to an accomplice not to crack under interrogation. In "Dear Deadly," the advice columnist's firmness in going to bat for her editor initially makes her seem like a Benevolent Boss, but it's later revealed that she's just a figurehead, and he's been writing the column for her since the beginning.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9838d681	type	DudeMagnet
Murder, She Wrote / int_9838d681	comment	Dude Magnet: Jessica gets a lot of attention from older gentlemen, and in one episode a college-age guy who Likes Older Women flat-out propositions her. This was at least partly because of a direct request by Lansbury. She felt very strongly that Jessica should be a realistic middle-aged woman, rather than a 'dried-up old biddy' stereotype. She still never hooked up with anyone permanently. This was possibly due to a mix of Executive Meddling and fan opinions, who never liked any of Jessica's potential love interests... at least, those who made it to the end of their introductory episode without being killed or revealed as the killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_985d3ad0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Murder, She Wrote / int_985d3ad0	comment	Crosscast Role: In book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), part of the plot involves Jessica being convinced to act as Santa Claus during Cabot Cove's annual Christmas festival and read stories to the children alongside Seth Hazlitt (who's also dressed as Santa).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9970d26b	type	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
Murder, She Wrote / int_9970d26b	comment	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), the serial killer (who's been murdering people who work on Broadway) turns out to have this problem. As Henry Hayes says, "She's incapable of divorcing fact from fiction, acting from real actions." It's one of the factors in her being declared certifiably insane and sent to a mental hospital for the rest of her life.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9bf3fa2b	type	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork
Murder, She Wrote / int_9bf3fa2b	comment	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork: An episode has Jessica attend a party in Hong Kong, where the host dies after dipping century egg and ginger in vinegar. It turns out that it was the glazing of the plate was laced with poison and the host died from eating it when he dipped his egg and ginger in the vinegar.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Murder, She Wrote / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: Seen in a number of episodes where there are multiple suspects; Jessica gathers them all in one room to present her evidence and try to force a confession.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Murder, She Wrote / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: A cartoonist hides blackmail threats in a daily comic strip.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Murder, She Wrote / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: "The Grand Old Lady" has Jessica reminiscing about a legendary female mystery writer whom she admired (not played by Lansbury), who was involved with a real-life mystery on a cruise ship very shortly after the end of World War II. It turns out the mystery writer got the solution completely wrong — though it was a fully logical and workable theory — but no one ever told her because everyone involved had so much respect for her. The murder itself was hushed up because the Victim of the Week was a former Nazi.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Murder, She Wrote / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Late in book 10 (Murder in Moscow), Jessica recalls how she met George Sutherland in book 1 (Gin and Daggers), and visited his home in book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders). Early on in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), Jessica is reminded of the events of book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders) and how she talked down the man who held two of her friends hostage, which Mary Walther feels makes her the best person to talk sense into Mary's husband Jake when he's unwilling to speak to the police in his own defense after being accused of murder.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a0390164	type	It's for a Book
Murder, She Wrote / int_a0390164	comment	It's for a Book: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), at one point, Jessica calls the local fire department's chief to ask for information about the fire that Anthony Scott died in a year before, claiming she's doing research for a new book involving arson as a plot point and needs his technical expertise.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Murder, She Wrote / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: In one episode, Metzger finds the man who was responsible for the deaths of his old partner and his wife. For years, he's wanted to put his partner's murderer behind bars and he manages to find him. Unfortunately, since he has a very good motive for killing the victim, he's a primary suspect in the murder case.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Murder, She Wrote / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), Matilda Swift comes to town a few months before the plot starts in order to investigate Tony Swift's murder. Her own murder results in Jessica getting involved and uncovering the truth.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a3a7c41	type	Black Sheep
Murder, She Wrote / int_a3a7c41	comment	Black Sheep: Book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) has William "Willy" Morrison, considered the "loser" and "family disappointment" to his family, who are always putting him down or telling him not to do or say anything. Jessica even mentally refers to him by the trope name after spending some time talking to him, and feels sorry for him after learning how his family treats him.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
Murder, She Wrote / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: Discussed in book 10 (Murder in Moscow). While Jessica's talking with President Singleton, he mentions that the conspiracy in a book she wrote, which a small town police chief gets involved in, is very similar to one he knows of which a small town police chief got involved in; Jessica assures him that it's pure coincidence and that the only lawman she knows well (Mort Metzger, though she doesn't identify him by name), if he's involved in any conspiracy at all, is in one "to make sure he keeps getting invited to our Chamber of Commerce dinners." Singleton laughs and says that sounds like a positive conspiracy to him.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Murder, She Wrote / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The villains in this movie — the murderer and the people who help him cover it up, a trio of racist Jerkasses — get off scot-free (except for being on the losing side of the Civil War) due to their influence and the lack of evidence.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Murder, She Wrote / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Jessica doesn't hesitate to play up her "little old lady" image to get information out of people. In a few instances she even plays a drunken floozy with surprising skill, which may be justified since Jessica has a history of theater in her background.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a8476736	type	Keep the Reward
Murder, She Wrote / int_a8476736	comment	Keep the Reward: Played with — Jessica sometimes receives money for things other than her writing, and tends to immediately donate it to a charitable cause. In book 1 (Gin and Daggers), she inherits a decent sum from a friend and promptly donates it to a study center that her friend has established. In book 4 (Brandy and Bullets), she's paid for holding a writing seminar and again promptly donates her payment to the local hospital.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_a8a80e26	type	Fashion Dissonance
Murder, She Wrote / int_a8a80e26	comment	Fashion Dissonance: Big hair, shoulder pads, and leisure suits abound, especially in earlier seasons. It was The '80s, after all.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ad6593eb	type	Cut-and-Paste Note
Murder, She Wrote / int_ad6593eb	comment	Cut-and-Paste Note: In book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), after coming home to find an intruder in her house, Jessica speaks to the police, then goes looking around to find if anything's been stolen. There isn't, but as she's on her way out, she finds one of these notes, saying "Butt out, if you know what's good for you." It turns out Robert Brent was just trying to protect Jill Walther and her secret — that she'd given birth to and then given up his daughter.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Murder, She Wrote / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: A couple, although regularly appearing ones in Cabot Cove are Seth Hazlett and, later in the series, Sheriff Metzger. Rarely, but Jessica herself can take the wind out of someone who thinks they can talk down to the retired English teacher who clearly doesn't know anything about solving murders or is just being an ass to her in general. One of the best examples is in "Killer Radio", where she brings up Dostoevsky to insufferable shock-jock Marcus Rule. Rule suggests that he have the famous Russian author on his show. Jessica tells him that would be impossible, as he died some time ago, but the title of one of his books would suit Rule just fine... The Idiot!
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Murder, She Wrote / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Jessica has one just prior to getting neck deep in the current investigation: She also has a variation of her Once per Episode disagreement when the current officer in charge makes the first accusation: Also, upon having her "Eureka!" Moment, she has a variation of the same basic quote: She also has a delightful habit of saying "I don't mean to intrude" while forcing her way into someone's home/hotel room/office when they don't want her there. Then there's her go-to when a detective hastily guesses what happened based on only a quick glance-over of the crime scene:
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b2283870	type	Retool
Murder, She Wrote / int_b2283870	comment	Retool: The eighth season began with Jessica moving to New York City to take up a temporary teaching position at a college. J. Michael Straczynski had taken over as head writer for the series alongside a new producer, so the decision was made to move away from Cabot Cove as a way to refresh the series. Episodes set in Cabot Cove were still produced, but not to the same extent as the first seven seasons.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Murder, She Wrote / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Some of the not-so-nice killers always confess to Jessica or someone else in the belief that they are alone, just before trying to kill them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Murder, She Wrote / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The final episode knocks on the reason for the show being death-slotted: its lack of appeal to the 18-39 demographic. The episode itself is about a radio station manager who fires every employee over a certain age and changes the station's classical music format to more contemporary hard rock.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b572a91c	type	Cold Cash
Murder, She Wrote / int_b572a91c	comment	Cold Cash: A thief hides a Briefcase Full of Money in the deep freeze of the restaurant where the murder occurred. When Dennis Stanton catches him retrieving it, he makes the obligatory 'frozen assets' joke.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Murder, She Wrote / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: The Victim of the Week is a ruthless divorce lawyer who persuades a woman to pursue a divorce she doesn't actually want.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
Murder, She Wrote / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), while discussing the history of Cabot Cove, it's said that Winfred Cabot is supposed to have told his wife Hephzibah that he was cheating on her in an effort to make her jealous. It got him killed by her instead.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_bb99411d	type	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Murder, She Wrote / int_bb99411d	comment	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Jessica's visit to Mexico happens to coincide with DiÂa de los Muertos (and, of course, a murder).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Murder, She Wrote / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Naturally, this happens in a lot of episodes, where an innocent man is the prime suspect of the murder (although it's usually not an intentional Frame-Up on the real killer's part), making Jessica's task twice as hard.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Murder, She Wrote / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Another way Jessica would identify the killer is the fact that they would accidentally let slip some minor detail only the killer would know. For instance, in the second episode, "Deadly Lady", four sisters are accused of murdering their father. One sister's shoes are found at the scene. After she's cleared, suspicion turns to the others, one of whom says it couldn't be her because the two wore different sizes and she didn't wear pink. Jessica never mentions that the shoes were pink. The sister actually lampshades where she slips.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Murder, She Wrote / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Book 6 (A Deadly Judgement) features Jessica's lawyer friend Malcolm McLoon and Judge Walter Wilson.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Murder, She Wrote / int_c10da874	comment	Given that the show started in The '80s, with both Jessica and Frank working, the house might very well have been paid off by the time Frank died.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c197275d	type	Ethereal White Dress
Murder, She Wrote / int_c197275d	comment	Ethereal White Dress: In book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders), Jessica is visiting the ancestral castle (and part-time hotel) of her friend George Sutherland in Scotland. During her first night, she spots a strange woman all in white (except for some bloodstains), who appears to be a ghost and whispers a short phrase to her — "Gie a heize", archaic Gaelic for "lend a hand" as George guesses when he hears the expression later. It turns out to be a setup — the ghost's a fake, along with everything else apparently supernatural going on. In book 14 (Trick or Treachery), Jessica wears one of these as part of her costume when she dresses up as the ghost of Hepzibah Cabot for the annual Halloween party. Actress Sophia Pavlou agrees to wear one as well when Jessica hires her to pose as Hepzibah's ghost, and the real ghost wears one as well when she turns up during the event that Sophia missed out on.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Murder, She Wrote / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), Jessica watches Detective Henry Hayes and his partner, Tony Vasile, in action and comes to the conclusion that they're using this technique.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Murder, She Wrote / int_c25c7890	comment	In the opening chapter of book 3 (Rum and Razors), Jessica's been getting strange notes, all consisting of a single line — "GLOTCOYB", each time followed by varying punctuation (none on the first, a question mark on the second, a comma on the third, a period on the fourth and three exclamation points on the fifth). Shortly after finishing her latest manuscript, she sees a group of people outside her home, holding a banner with the same word. It turns out to be her friends Dr. Seth Hazlitt and Sheriff Morton Metzger, plus some other locals, who reveal "GLOTCOYB" is actually an acronym for "Good luck on the completion of your book". Jessica is both irked and relieved, since the pranks had actually been making her rather nervous, to the point where she answered the door that day with a fire poker in hand to ward off any potential threats.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Murder, She Wrote / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: In book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders), when Alicia and Jed Richardson have been taken hostage by a man at the Tower of London, Jessica offers herself in their place, pointing out that she's a writer and can tell the man's story if he agrees. He winds up letting the Richardsons go, and only tries to shoot at them at the last minute, right after Jessica's gotten both them and herself to safety.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Murder, She Wrote / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Ethan Cragg (Claude Akins), who appears often enough in the first season to be considered a recurring character, disappears without explanation at the start of season two. His role as Cabot Cove's resident lovable curmudgeon is filled by Dr. Seth Hazlitt for the rest of the series.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Murder, She Wrote / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: Book 1 (Gin and Daggers) was originally released in 1989, but there were several inaccuracies compared to the TV series, including a scene of Jessica driving a car (in the actual series, she never learned to drive, relying on her bicycle, public transportation or rides from friends). A re-edited version was released in 2000 to fix the majority of these errors.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Murder, She Wrote / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: The killer tampers with the gearing on a stunt car to kill the stuntman driving it.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Murder, She Wrote / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Murder Among Friends" features a Show Within a Show about six New Yorkers who spend an awful lot of time in a coffee shop. It's even mentioned that the female cast's salaries are equal to those of the male cast.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c8490cbe	type	Voodoo Doll
Murder, She Wrote / int_c8490cbe	comment	Voodoo Doll: A voodoo doll is placed next to the Victim of the Week to make his murder look like it was part of a series of underworld-related voodoo murders.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
Murder, She Wrote / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Book 3 (Rum and Razors) revolves around Jessica, having just finished her latest manuscript, taking a trip to the island of St. Thomas near Florida. Book 7 (A Palette For Murder) revolves around Jessica, after finishing a manuscript, visiting the Hamptons in Long Island. After solving the mystery, she spends the last few days of her trip in isolation on Montauk for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) involves Jessica and Seth going to visit their friends Jim and Bonnie Cook on their ranch in Colorado after a sudden invitation.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_c897338a	type	Little Old Lady Investigates
Murder, She Wrote / int_c897338a	comment	Little Old Lady Investigates: If Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the most famous example of this trope, Jessica Fletcher is arguably the second most famous, as well as the most famous TV variation.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ca803bc0	type	Anachronistic Clue
Murder, She Wrote / int_ca803bc0	comment	Anachronistic Clue: Jessica identifies a journal purportedly written by Arthur Conan Doyle as forgery because it mentions a visit to Ellis Island in 1926. Ellis Island closed in 1924.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Murder, She Wrote / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In season 2, Joshua Peabody is described as a popular legendary war hero for the town of Cabot Cove, albeit one whose existence has never been officially confirmed and is described as a myth in-universe. In season 11, however, Peabody is presented as being as "Cabot Cove's most famous patriot" who did indeed exist and even has relatives that still live in town.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Murder, She Wrote / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch) has Jim Cook regularly making bad jokes, most of which tend to elicit groans from his audience.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
Murder, She Wrote / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: In book 7 (A Palette For Murder), during a talk between Jessica and art dealer Maurice St. James, he says that "My middle name is discretion, Mrs. Fletcher."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_cde175c8	type	Fake Static
Murder, She Wrote / int_cde175c8	comment	Fake Static: At the start, a cop gets out of a conversation with the dispatcher by repeatedly thumbing the send button on his radio to make it seem like the signal is breaking up.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Murder, She Wrote / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: One murder victim ( Charolette in "Trouble in Eden") turns out to have been blackmailing the more prominent men of her small town, but then it's implied she was using the money to anonymously support charities for orphans and widows. The killer in the first episode is being blackmailed over a crime for which he was framed originally, and he kills his blackmailer. He only loses Jessica's sympathy because he kills someone else too. Many of the inmates in "Jessica Behind Bars" are this, in that the riot and eventual hostage situation are caused mainly to stop the police from pinning the crime on fellow prisoner Mary and because of the substandard conditions they've had to endure. Well, one half, led by hotheaded Kat, want to blast their way out to freedom, while the others want Jessica to find out who really killed Dr. Matthews. Inmate Bertha even mentions that "If any of us had any brains we wouldn't be in this joint," a self-deprecating comment about their criminal pasts. Possibly most actively seen with the recurring character of Gentleman Thief Dennis Stanton, who started his side career as a jewel thief as revenge on the insurance company who refused to pay out for the medical treatments that might have saved his beloved wife. He later evolves to Anti-Hero when he gives up his life of crime (except when a little breaking and entering helps him solve a case, of course!) to become an investigator for a different insurance company.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Murder, She Wrote / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Jessica is something like this as the series begins. Seth Hazlitt makes a remark that she got into writing her first novel, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, as her way of coping with the death of her beloved husband Frank; he makes a few other comments in early seasons which imply that her grieving has been extensive, and he's trying to help her work through it. (Being a widower himself, he has some understanding of her process.)
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Murder, She Wrote / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: The show had quite a few, given that the killers usually revealed themselves by saying something only the killer would know or assume.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Murder, She Wrote / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Once per Episode with some minor detail that ties all the other evidence together, and leads into the confession scene. Seth and Mort lampshade it in later seasons with exasperation as they see her staring off into space, realizing she's figured it all out. Subverted in one episode when she does this... and then announces she's worked out the ending to her latest book.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Murder, She Wrote / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: All of the Nice Guy characters get moments like this. In particular, Seth inexplicably takes an instant dislike to a new doctor at the hospital for seemingly no other reason than that the guy is much younger than him, frequently and unfairly accusing him of not caring about his patients, and holding him responsible for the death of one of his former patients, who appears to have died due to an error the young doctor made. Jessica, who suspects foul play, gently but firmly tells Seth that he's behaving wrongly, and that if the woman was in fact murdered, the other doctor certainly doesn't deserve to have his career and reputation ruined over someone else's misdeed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d487c864	type	BackhandedCompliment
Murder, She Wrote / int_d487c864	comment	Backhanded Compliment: In book 1 (Gin and Daggers), Marjorie leaves her British literary agent a sum of money while also including a footnote that she suspects that he's stolen from her as well (something the man denies) but appreciates that he's done so with more "discretion" than his American colleagues (all she leaves them is an assurance that she won't ask her estate to prosecute them for their provable embezzlement) and has also shown her some nice friendship.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d5929047	type	Revealing Injury
Murder, She Wrote / int_d5929047	comment	Revealing Injury: Jessica realizes the Victim of the Week is the same man who attacked her in her hotel room because of the scratch marks she left on his hand when he grabbed her.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d68762ef	type	Weapon for Intimidation
Murder, She Wrote / int_d68762ef	comment	Weapon for Intimidation: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), Jenny Forrest — a member of the cast who's recently been fired — is threatening casting director Linda Amstead with what appears to be a real knife. When Jessica tries to talk her down, Jenny turns on her and stabs her in the chest... only for the knife to be revealed as a prop with a retractable blade, a fact which Jenny knew all along but Jessica didn't until that very moment.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d7a17494	type	Coupled Couples
Murder, She Wrote / int_d7a17494	comment	Coupled Couples: It's indicated in a few episodes that Jessica, her husband Frank, Seth Hazlitt, and Seth's wife were this when all four were alive, and that it's the reason that she and Seth are still so close since they've both been widowed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Murder, She Wrote / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Seth Hazlitt and Mort Metzger seem to drive each other absolutely crazy; nevertheless, they've always got each other's backs.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
Murder, She Wrote / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Book 10 (Murder in Moscow) features a variant in which the climax explains that two years prior, Alexandra Kozhina, part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the current Russian government, had been recruited by an American government organization. Jessica gets caught up in things when it turns out another organization, also part of the American government, doesn't know about the first group having recruited Alexandra and tries to use Jessica as a messenger to recruit Alexandra themselves.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Murder, She Wrote / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Evelyn Morrison takes extreme offense to being questioned over the murder of Paul Molloy and tries to convince the Cooks to speak to the sheriff's department and have him leave her family out of the whole thing, believing her family's yearly visits to the Powderhorn Ranch (and therefore financial support of it) entitle her to special treatment. The Cooks, however, decline to do so. Their decision turns out to be justified when it turns out Evelyn's daughter-in-law Veronica is one of the two killers.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Murder, She Wrote / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In book 13 (Knock 'Em Dead), after an apparent sighting of the ghost of Marcus Drummond (for whom Drummond Theater, where the play is being staged, is named), Pamela South (who was hired to replace Jenny Forrest) declares that she's quitting and runs out of the theater. She's eventually persuaded to return after Jenny, who took back her role, is exposed as a killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Murder, She Wrote / int_db71d717	comment	In "A Very Good Year For Murder", the victim was a professional hitman. Jessica's friend had actually invited the hitman to his house as part of an admittedly foolish Thanatos Gambit, but then the hitman's sloppy attempt at murder badly injures the man's son instead, prompting the old man to off the hitman himself, confess everything to Jessica, and then attempt suicide. It's especially notable in that Jessica herself says that she would refuse to testify about his confession, as she sees no need for him to go to jail (he's terminally ill).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Murder, She Wrote / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Usually Once per Episode there will be someone who seems all too obviously the killer. They hated the victim, they are angry individuals, they have a shady record, they certainly have means and motive, they made some kind of threat to the victim, and/or they're the first one implicated by evidence (which incidentally is almost a guarantee for Jessica to prove their innocence, or have them end up murdered by the true culprit). Played with once with Kate Mulgrew in her third appearance. The killer actually speaks during the murders and sounds like a disguised version of Kate's distinct breathy voice. Kate played the killer in two previous episodes, so it seemed likely that she'd be it again.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Murder, She Wrote / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Adele Metzger, wife of Sheriff Mort Metzger, is known as Maureen Metzger in this series, as noted when she makes her first named appearance in book 8 (The Highland Fling Murders).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Murder, She Wrote / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: One episode revolves around Jessica getting sued when the plot of her latest novel is staggeringly similar to a real-life murder case. Jessica is shocked when she reads the reports from the actual case and realizes it is similar, even though she's never heard of the real case. In fact, the book is so similar that the guy who is suing her uses it to discover who actually murdered his wife, and subsequently gets killed by the same culprit: his former secretary/second wife.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_dca03b6b	type	More Criminals Than Targets
Murder, She Wrote / int_dca03b6b	comment	More Criminals Than Targets: Cabot Cove has a murder rate that far surpasses even the most dangerous inner cities in the world. Given that Jessica reliably catches the (alleged) murderers, their numbers have to be replenishing with amazing speed.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Murder, She Wrote / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Most of the sheriffs/police chiefs tend to be this. While they can be gruff and impatient with Jessica, they do want to do their job and catch the killer.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Murder, She Wrote / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: Book 5 (Martinis and Mayhem) revolves around Jessica meeting a woman who's in prison for her husband's murder. Jessica comes to believe she's innocent, and has proven it by the end, with the real killers and their accomplice being arrested.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_de10dda2	type	Caught on Tape
Murder, She Wrote / int_de10dda2	comment	Caught on Tape: The murderer accidentally records their confession on tape.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Murder, She Wrote / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Jessica typically finds some way to bluff the murderer into seeking her out, thinking her to be alone and thus defenseless. Her favorite method is to show off a piece of paper she claims is the evidence of the killer's guilt, goading a confession. Lampshaded when the sheriff asks to see the "evidence" and chuckles "you get more mileage out of a blank piece of paper than anyone I know."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Murder, She Wrote / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: The episodes featuring Dennis Stanton usually start as a case of insurance fraud that then escalate to murder.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e0a0f41c	type	Gardening-Variety Weapon
Murder, She Wrote / int_e0a0f41c	comment	Gardening-Variety Weapon: The first Victim of the Week witnesses a would-be burglary and is stabbed with a gardening fork.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Murder, She Wrote / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: MI6 agent Michael Hagerty poses as a monsignor to infiltrate a Mafia wedding.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e236af66	type	Who Would Want to Watch Us?
Murder, She Wrote / int_e236af66	comment	Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In one episode, after solving a mystery that occurred at a mystery series production studio, the producer trails after Jessica and suggests making a weekly mystery series written by her, about her exploits. Jessica says it's the worst idea she's ever heard.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Murder, She Wrote / int_e3048d1b	comment	Played with, then averted: special mention probably goes out to Marge in "Who Killed J. B. Fletcher?" The initial scenes portray her as a bumbling burglar and identity thief who causes some major grief for poor Jessica. She turns out to be an aspiring Amateur Sleuth herself who's taking her Jessica Fletcher fandom a trifle too seriously (and her son's a politician, who doesn't need headlines about his criminal mom!). She thinks she's getting proof of a major (by small-town Texas standards) scandal; instead, she accidentally catches a pair of killers in the middle of disposing of the body. Instantly He Knows Too Much.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e3315e75	type	Scoundrel Code
Murder, She Wrote / int_e3315e75	comment	Scoundrel Code: Dennis Stanton is a Gentleman Thief who, after going straight, became a recurring character. During his burgling years, he maintained his own strict code of conduct: never steal anything his victims couldn't afford to lose, never steal anything of sentimental value to the victim, and only steal items insured by a specific insurance company. The last one is for personal revenge, as the company in question refused to pay for a treatment that could have saved his wife's life.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Murder, She Wrote / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: The murderer sneaks up on what would be his next victim, only to discover it is a male police officer disguised in drag.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Murder, She Wrote / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Michael Hagarty, Jessica's friend in MI6, often invokes this as part of his undercover operations or other crime-fighting activities. Jessica is more often seen to be exasperated by it than anything, since he frequently uses it on her to hide his true motives for doing something.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Murder, She Wrote / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen/Dead to Begin With: Frank Fletcher, Jessica's late husband, passed away prior to the series. Throughout the series, Jessica interacts with her multiple nieces and nephews, some of whom belong to Frank's side of the family. At one point, she even reunites with her brother-in-law and other relatives connected to the family. The only thing the viewers have as far as a description on Frank is that he and his brother looked alike and they brought in an actor to provide his voice. Frank Fletcher does appear as a young man on a newsreel in "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel."
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Murder, She Wrote / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
Murder, She Wrote / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: Jessica finds a body in her hotel room. By the time the police arrive, the body has disappeared. She later finds the corpse in the service area of the hotel, only for it to disappear again before the police arrive.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Murder, She Wrote / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Well...more of a daydream with "The Petrified Florist". Jessica spends a tedious dinner party imagining the other guests as characters in a murder mystery she'd write. We don't find out it was all in her head until the end.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Murder, She Wrote / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Detective Alphonse Rizzi in book 2 (Manhattans and Murder), who's perfectly willing to let an innocent man die as a cover for one of his associates.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Murder, She Wrote / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: A friend of Jessica's accidentally stumbles on a plot of some thieves. The thieves kidnap and keep her bound and gagged in the back of their van as they commit the robbery.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_eb4f0f1e	type	Fictional Board Game
Murder, She Wrote / int_eb4f0f1e	comment	Fictional Board Game: It's mentioned in the first two books that Morton Metzger has been developing a murder mystery board game (though its title isn't said) for some time; book 2 (Manhattans and Murder) has him finally send it off to Parker Brothers and get a letter back saying they're interested, while book 4 (Brandy and Bullets) mentions he's revising the rules again, at their request. Book 9 (Murder on the QE2) reveals that it's apparently been shelved, but he's written a play based on its setting instead. Book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder) ultimately reveals that the deal with Parker Brothers fell through "over certain changes requested by the company that Mort refused to make".
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Murder, She Wrote / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Murder, She Wrote / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The police force of whatever location Jessica happens to be in (see Busman's Holiday and Bluffing the Murderer for the overlap).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ec200a54	type	Steam Never Dies
Murder, She Wrote / int_ec200a54	comment	Steam Never Dies: In "Another Killing in Cork", Jessica is shown traveling through modern-day Ireland on a steam train.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Murder, She Wrote / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Andy Broom is the name of young hotel employee who befriends Jessica and is accused of murder in â€œA Little Night Workâ€� in season 5. Andy Broom is also the name of the recurring deputy under Sheriff Metzger for the last couple of seasons of the series.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
Murder, She Wrote / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Jessica acquires a large number of friendly detective acquaintances over the course of the series, not to mention her friendships with the Cabot Cove sheriffs.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Murder, She Wrote / int_f05444a4	comment	She also has a variation of her Once per Episode disagreement when the current officer in charge makes the first accusation:
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Murder, She Wrote / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death And Making Up With Jessica: Preston Giles.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Murder, She Wrote / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: An old friend of Seth's arrives in Cabot Cove. He is followed by a private eye named Jarvis who has been dogging him for years, convinced that he was responsible for a jewelry store robbery.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f1c17256	type	A Deadly Affair
Murder, She Wrote / int_f1c17256	comment	A Deadly Affair: Book 14 (Trick or Treachery) discusses the history of Cabot Cove, including how town founder Winfred Cabot took up with a woman other than his wife Hepzibah, and was beheaded by her with an ax in retaliation.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: In book 12 (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Jim Cook is notorious for his groan-worthy jokes.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f4992ba	comment	Desperate Object Catch: A high-stakes Slo Mo example appears at the climax.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Jessica and Seth have this dynamic. They obviously care about each other, but there's little to no indication of anything romantic between them. At least one episode implies that when their spouses were alive, the four of them were close friends who spent a lot of time together.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: On a retired teacher's pension, her husband's life insurance, and her book sales, Jessica is able to afford to not only maintain her Cabot Cove two-story home, but also a Manhattan apartment, and routine trips to exotic ports of call. Some of this is probably covered by her publisher, since she does go on book signing tours and such, but not all of it. Given that the show started in The '80s, with both Jessica and Frank working, the house might very well have been paid off by the time Frank died. Also, a lot of those trips have Jessica being put up in a private residence by an old friend or professional acquaintance; anyone who's planned trips overseas knows that airfare can be the cheapest part of a trip compared to accommodation costs and meals. To be fair, it's implied in-universe that she became a very successful writer, enjoying great sales note in the season 5 two-part finale Mirror mirror on the wall, a publisher specifically says that Jessica's last six books have been best-sellers movie offers note her first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight was bought for a title-only adaptation in an early episode, and she goes to Hollywood at least twice to discuss movie adaptations and the like. Also, the Manhattan apartment is her residence while she's teaching at a university for a spell, and the rent may be covered by the university as part of her salary, or outright owned by the university to host visiting lecturers. She must be well-off enough because in "We're Off to Kill the Wizard" she gives away the million-dollar check the victim's Rich Bitch wife wrote to her to solve the murder to his secretary he treated like crap.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_fb5ab090	comment	Turns out to be the case in book 11 (A Little Yuletide Murder), where murder victim Rory Brent is ultimately revealed to have acted as a Loan Shark towards the Walthers (and had previously been involved in a group that did the same to other farmers) and was on the verge of claiming their farm when he was murdered. He also arranged for Jill Walther to go to a business that he expected would arrange for her to have an abortion (she didn't) of his own grandchild.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: In the final chapter of book 14 (Trick or Treachery), Jessica gets a call from Sophia Pavlou, whom she'd asked to appear as the ghost of Hepzibah Cabot... and learns Sophia never made it out to the event due to having broken her ankle. Yet the ghost still showed up, causing a stunned Jessica and Seth to realize it was the real deal who came to help them.
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Murder, She Wrote / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Murder, She Wrote / int_fccd06b6	comment	Rarely, but Jessica herself can take the wind out of someone who thinks they can talk down to the retired English teacher who clearly doesn't know anything about solving murders or is just being an ass to her in general. One of the best examples is in "Killer Radio", where she brings up Dostoevsky to insufferable shock-jock Marcus Rule. Rule suggests that he have the famous Russian author on his show. Jessica tells him that would be impossible, as he died some time ago, but the title of one of his books would suit Rule just fine... The Idiot!
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Murder, She Wrote / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Murder, She Wrote / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The first five books all follow the same naming scheme — "(alcoholic drink) and (other word)". Jessica actually discusses this in Gin and Daggers, the first book of the series. It's later re-used for book 24 (Margaritas and Murder).
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Murder, She Wrote / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Murder, She Wrote / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The villain murders several people (including his own aunt) with little to no remorse; but he draws the line at killing his pregnant half-sister and her boyfriend when they arrive at the spot where the treasure is, instead forging a note to send them on a wild goose chase, many miles away, while he finishes taking out the treasure.
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Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Medication Tampering / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Memetic Psychopath / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mind Your Step / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Minor Living Alone / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mistaken for Spies / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mistaken Identity / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mock Millionaire / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	More Criminals Than Targets / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Writers / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	My Own Private "I Do" / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mystery Magnet / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Mystery Writer Detective / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Naked in Mink / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Name and Name / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Nephewism / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Newspaper-Thin Disguise / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	"No" Means "Yes" / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	No-Tell Motel / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Not Listening to Me, Are You? / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Not-So-Forgotten Birthday / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Not with Them for the Money / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Novelization / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Obvious Crossover Method / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Of Corpse He's Alive / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Office Golf / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Officer O'Hara / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Oireland / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Ominous Owl / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Only a Lighter / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Orgy of Evidence / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Parent-Preferred Suitor / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Passed-Over Inheritance / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Permanent Elected Official / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Phoney Call / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Phony Psychic / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pillow Silencer / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pilot Movie / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Platonic Life-Partners / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Playing a Tree / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Plot Allergy / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pocket Protector / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pool Scene / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Post-Robbery Trauma / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Privacy by Distraction / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Produced by Cast Member / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Propping Up Their Patsy / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Psycho Psychologist / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pulled from Your Day Off / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Ransacked Room / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Rapid-Fire Typing / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Read the Fine Print / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	"Rear Window" Witness / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Recorded Audio Alibi / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Recruiting the Criminal / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Revealing Injury / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Rogue Juror / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Room Disservice / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Satchel Switcheroo / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Sauna of Death / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Scarecrow Solution / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Scary Scarecrows / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Script Swap / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Seeker Archetype / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Seeking the Missing, Finding the Dead / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Sextra Credit / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Shady Real Estate Agent / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Shamu Fu / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Shared Universe / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Shear Menace / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Significant Double Casting / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Silver Fox / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Single Parents Are Undesirable / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Ski-Resort Episode / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Smoky Gentlemen's Club / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Something about a Rose / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Songs in the Key of Lock / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Private / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Spiteful Suicide / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Spiteful Will / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Stalker Shrine / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Statute of Limitations / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Stealth Sequel / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Stereo Fibbing / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Studio Episode / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Suicide, Not Murder / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Summation Gathering / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Sword Cane / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Technology Marches On / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Terrifying Pet Store Rat / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	That One Case / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Backwards Я / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Big Easy / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Board Game / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Book Cipher / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Butler Did It / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Danza / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Food Poisoning Incident / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Killer Was Left-Handed / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	The Shut-In / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	This Bear Was Framed / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Thriller on the Express / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Tie-In Novel / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Totally Not a Criminal Front / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Training Montage / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	20% More Awesome / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Two-Timing with the Bestie / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Underground Railroad / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Ventriloquism / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Vice City / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Victim of the Week / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Video Wills / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Voodoo Doll / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Vote Early, Vote Often / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Wacky Marriage Proposal / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Walking Disaster Area / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Wardens Are Evil / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	We Do Not Know Each Other / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	"We're Live" Realization / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	What Is Evil? / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Who Would Want to Watch Us? / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Workout Fanservice / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Worst Wedding Ever / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Worthless Treasure Twist / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Writing Indentation Clue / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	You, Get Me Coffee / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Hypno Fool / int_9f78fda3
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Pursued Protagonist / int_9f78fda3

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