num_pages: 272
description: Best-selling mystery author Jessica Fletcher is visiting a ranch out west. The owners, old friends Bonnie and Jim Cook, asked her to come and she said, "Yes!" It's an adventure in the glorious outdoors of Colorado. But she gets caught in a fiendish plot when one of the guests is found stabbed to death. Soon after, the victim's wife is also discovered murdered in a gruesome fashion. Is it revenge? If so, for what?With the police at a loss, and the rest of the guests on edge, Jessica decides to do some research into the past of some of them. This group had been less than cordial. What she discovers may help her crack the case...if it doesn't get her killed first!Librarian's note #1: the first 15 books in the current Jessica Fletcher / Donald Bain "Murder She Wrote" series are #1, Gin &amp; Daggers (1989) with a 2nd edition in (2000); #2, Manhattans &amp; Murder (1994); #3, Rum &amp; Razors (1995); #4, Brandy &amp; Bullets (1995); #5, Martinis &amp; Mayhem (1995); #6, A Deadly Judgment (1996); #7, A Palette for Murder (1996); #8, The Highland Fling Murders (1997); #9, Murder on the QE2 (1997); #10, Murder in Moscow (1998); #11, A Little Yuletide Murder (1998); #12, Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch (1999); #13, Knock 'Em Dead (1999); #14, Trick or Treachery (2000); and #15, Blood on the Vine (2001).Librarian's note #2: there is an earlier MSW series by James Anderson and David Deutsch. Novelizations of TV episodes. This original series has 4 volumes: #1, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1985); #2, Hooray for Homicide (1985); #3, Lovers and Other Killers (1986); and #4, Murder in Two Acts (1986).
language: English
title: Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch
titlecomplete: Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch (Murder, She Wrote, #12)
characters: Roy Rogers (The King of Torts), Joel Louden, Paul and Geraldine Molloy, Mara (Brandy & Bullets), Jed Richardson, Veronica Schwinn, Chris Morrison, Jessica Fletcher, Joe Walker (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Crystal Kildare, Seth Hazlitt, Godfrey Morrison, John Wayne (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns), Vaughan Buckley, Willy Morrison, Alexandre Dumas (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Evelyn Morrison, Craig Morrison, Pauline Morrison, Alferd Packer (Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch), Nancy O'Keefe, Jim and Bonnie Cook, Sheriff Murdie, Dimitri Cassis, Robert Morrison, Robert Pitura
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Media Tie In, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Crime
ratings_count: 803
places: Cabot Cove, Maine, Gunnison, Colorado
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: Signet Book