num_pages: 288
description: When one of her mystery books, "Knock Em' Dead," is turned into a Broadway play, Jessica is thrilled and hits the Big Apple to help launch the production.But then, as the play is in rehearsal, dead bodies offstage start upstaging the performers onstage! As has happened before, it's up to Jess to drop the curtain on a killer! The show must go on. But will the play, the actors, and Jessica make it to opening night in one piece?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: Knock 'Em Dead
titlecomplete: Knock 'Em Dead (Murder, She Wrote, #13)
characters: Pamela South, Peter Monroe (Knock 'Em Dead), Roy Richardson, Helen Hayes (Knock 'Em Dead), Jessica Fletcher, Charlene Sassi, Robert Ruark (Knock 'Em Dead), Peter Eder, Arnold and Jill Factor, Mort Metzger, Martin Willig, Linda Amsted, Matt Miller, Seth Hazlitt, Jenny Forest, Jed Richardson, Montgomery Clift (Knock 'Em Dead), Olga Buckley, The Broadway serial killer, Aaron Manley, Samantha (Knock 'Em Dead), Charles Flowers, Tony Colarusso, Jim Shevlin, Wendell Watson, Joseph Scott and Patricia Hoye, Harry Schrumm, Arthur Miller (Knock 'Em Dead), A man in a gray overcoat, Henry Hayes, Tennessee Williams (Another Sanibel Island Detective), Frank Fletcher (Murder on the QE2), Vaughan Buckley, Marcus Drummond, Confucious (Knock 'Em Dead), George Sutherland (Gin and Daggers), James Dean (The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Joseph McCartney, David Potts, Brett Burton and Hanna Shawn, Beth and Peter Mullin, April Larsen, Vic (Knock 'Em Dead), Susan Shevlin, Cyrus Walpole, Gilbert and Sullivan (Knock 'Em Dead)
genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 675
places: New York City, New York, Cabot Cove, Maine, London, England
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: "Signet"