num_pages: 208
description: Welcome to the first "Murder She Wrote" novel starring Jessica Fletcher.The fancy dress ball thrown by Jessica's new publisher had been a great success - until murder showed up as an uninvited guest. Someone shot Sherlock Holmes. The police looked with undisguised dismay at a roomful of suspects in flamboyant costumes. Many with face-coverings! Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher already had a few ideas. Although the police didn't initially take too kindly to a middle-aged lady meddling in real life murder, that soon changed. She thought it would be a crime not to try and solve the case herself!Librarian's note #1: "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" is a novelization of the first episode of the hit TV series.Librarian's note #2: the original "Murder She Wrote" series by James Anderson and David Deutsch 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). Anderson wrote the first three and Deutsch, the fourth.Librarian's note #3: the current "Murder She Wrote" series by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain began in 1989 with #1, Gin &amp; Daggers (there was a 2nd edition in 2000). There are 56 volumes in the current series to date (May 2023).
language: English
title: Murder, She Wrote (Original): The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
titlecomplete: Murder, She Wrote (Original): The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (Jessica Fletcher, #1)
characters: Caleb McCallum, Edmond Dantes (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Ebenezer Scrooge (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Dick Tracy (H is for Homicide), Ellery Queen (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Lady Godiva (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Humpty Dumpty (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Jonathan Swift (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Snow White (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Karl Teretsky, Hamlet (Sea Change), Superman (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Roy Gunderson, Modesty Blaise (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Lois Thompson and Eleanor Hoey, Jack and Jill (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Kern, Rodgers, Gershwin and Berlin, Eliza Doolittle (Angel Eyes), Davis (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Little Orphan Annie (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Dexter Baxendale, Batman (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Ashley Vickers, Little Red Riding Hood (The Sunset Detective Goes to London), Morpheus (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Ambrose Bierce (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Peter Pan (The Man from the Sea), Fay Wray (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Hercule Poirot (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Chris Landon, Miss Marple (Chosen Prey), Preston Giles, Sherlock Holmes (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Daniel (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Mr. Cellini, Louise McCallum, Tracy (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Peter Brill, Kitt Donovan, Captain Hook (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Grady Fletcher (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Rooster Cogburn (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Sam Spade (Little White Lies), Little Bo-Peep (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Jessica Fletcher, Agatha Christie (Angel Eyes), A young black man, Philip Marlowe (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes)
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 106
places: New York City, New York, Cabot Cove, Maine
series: Jessica Fletcher #1, Jessica Fletcher
publisher: Avon Books