num_pages: 272
description: Jessica Fletcher gets spooked in this mystery from the "USA Today" bestselling "Murder, She Wrote" series.It's late October in Cabot Cove and, as Halloween approaches, something strange is in the air. The arrival of a self-righteous, fire-and-brimstone spiritual medium has some townspeople on the lookout for curses and evil omens. Plus, there's a reclusive, eccentric woman who has others whispering that she is a real-life witch. The whole town ends up spooked when the alleged witch is found dead in the graveyard, and everyone at the town's big Halloween party nearby is a suspect. While Sheriff Metzger does his thing, Jessica takes it upon herself to stir through a witches' brew of motives; she even concocts a scary scheme of her own to make sure a guilty ghoul doesn't get away with murder!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: Trick or Treachery
titlecomplete: Trick or Treachery (Murder, She Wrote, #14)
characters: Jeremy Scott, Jerry and Harold Jenkins, Dickens and Darwin (The September Society), Davy Crockett (Trick or Treachery), Sophia Pavlou, Erica Marshall, Joe Turco, Dashiell Hammett (Trick or Treachery), Ralph Mackin, Matt Miller, Jim Shevlin, Ruth Rendell (Trick or Treachery), Peter and Roberta Walters, George Walker and Stuart Shippee, Seth Hazlitt, Einstein (The Dead Harlequin), Warren Wilson, Raymond Chandler (Trick or Treachery), Charlene Sassi, Matilda Swift, Marcia Davis, Dick Mann, Anthony (Tony) Scott, Beth and Peter Mullin, Richard and MaryJane Koser, Lucas Tremaine, Mort Metzger, Cameron Douglas, Brenda Brody, John Decker (A Little Yuletide Murder), Lizzie Borden (Trick or Treachery), Peter Eder, Artie Sack, Robert and Lauren Wandowski, Dorothy Sayers (Trick or Treachery), Hepzibah Cabot, Paul Marshall (Trick or Treachery), Ed and Joan Lerner, P.D. James (Trick or Treachery), Alfred Gillo, Jessica Fletcher, Agatha Christie (Angel Eyes), Doc Treyz, P.T. Barnum (Trick or Treachery), Doris Sitar, David Raneri, Marie Poutre, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland (Beverly Hills Dead), Tim Purdy, Marie Antoinette (The Augean Stable), Mara (Brandy & Bullets)
genres: Crime, Media Tie In, Tv, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Holiday, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Contemporary, Halloween
ratings_count: 1406
places: Cabot Cove, Maine
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: New American Library