num_pages: 290
description: Doesn't this sound like great fun? A group of friends from Cabot Cove, Maine, take off for the British Isles to join Jessica Fletcher while she's on a book tour in London. They all end up at an ancient castle in Scotland. Exciting. It would have been a great vacation--except for the ghost. And the murders.Did we mention that the castle is owned by George Sutherland? The Inspector with Scotland Yard. He's the interesting man Jess met in "Gin &amp; Daggers," the first entry in the series, when she was in London the last time. It's located in the town of Wick and has been in his family for centuries. It's a time of witches, both in the distant past and the very current, and it's a time of pitchforks to the heart. Can Jessica rise to the occasion in Scotland?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: The Highland Fling Murders
titlecomplete: The Highland Fling Murders (Murder, She Wrote, #8)
characters: A relative of Catherine Hayes, Archibald Semple, Margaret (Maggie) Swales, Lydia Duncomb and Sarah Malcolm (The Highland Fling Murders), Evan Lochbuie, Joan (The Highland Fling Murders), Robert Southey (The Highland Fling Murders), The lady in white, Marshall Flemming, Jim Shevlin, George Bernard Shaw (The Highland Fling Murders), Peter and Roberta Walters, Seth Hazlitt, Malcolm James, Constable McKay, Susan Shevlin, Daisy Wemyss, Charlene Sassi, Dr. Hamish Dawson, Rufus Innes, Mary Gower, Forbes the bartender, Marjorie Ainsworth, Jed Richardson, Evelyn Gowdie, Mort Metzger, Sally Bulloch, Catherine Hayes (The Highland Fling Murders), Mr. and Mrs. Brock Peterman, Alicia Richardson, Ken Sassi, Robert (Robbie) Burns (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns), Isabell Gowdie (The Highland Fling Murders), Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh (The Highland Fling Murders),, Dr. Lord, Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Symington, Jessica Fletcher, The London investors, Finley Peter Dunne (The Highland Fling Murders), Fiona (The Highland Fling Murders), George Sutherland (Gin and Daggers), The bagpipe man
genres: Crime, Media Tie In, Scotland, Tv, Halloween, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 1137
places: London, England, Cabot Cove, Maine, Wick, Caithness, Scotland
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: Berkley Books