Reassessing Murder, She Wrote

Introduction. Part I: J.B. Fletcher, Writing, and Genre 1. The Fairest of Them All: Jessica Fletcher's Reign of the Queen of Mystery in Murder, She Wrote, Jennifer Schnabel 2. Women Writing for Television's Woman Writer: The Fourteen Women Writers of Murder, She Wrote, Kristi Humphreys 3. Murder She Wrote: Bridging the Gap Between the Golden Age and Cosy Mysteries, Phyllis M. Betz Part II: Jessica Fletcher, Gender, and Detection 4. Misogyny She Wrote: How Murder, She Wrote Typifies the Backlash Against Feminism, Mary P. Freier 5. "This Woman Has a Brilliant Criminal Mind": Information Behavior of a Widow Woman from Maine, Michelle M. Kazmer 6. The Undercover Feminism of Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Sharon Dempsey Part III: Environments and Global Impact of Murder, She Wrote 7. "...Something sultry and seductive about this place": New Orleans in the Murder, She Wrote Imagination, Jill E. Anderson 8. "Norman Rockwell-land" or "Death Capital of Maine"? Race, Social Status, and Parochialism as Factors in the Perceived 'Coziness' of Crime in Reagan-Era Cabot Cove, Allysha Powanda Winburn, Mark J. Winburn, and Cate E. Bird 9. From Murder, She Wrote to La Signora in Giallo: Jessica Fletcher as a Pop Culture Icon in Italy, Lucia Casiraghi and Nicolò Salmaso 10. "Now, am I imagining things, or isn't that a little fairy person there in among the flowers?": Constructions of 'Ireland' in Murder, She Wrote, Eva Burke Part IV: Influences, Intertextuality, and Echoes 11. 'Agatha Christie's ghost may strike you dead!': Murder, She Wrote and an Agatha Christie Sense of Murder, Mark Aldridge 12. Death in Plastic: A Ludonarrative Analysis of Murder, She Wrote: The Game and Murder on Madison Avenue, Marco Arnaudo 13. Re-watching Murder, She Wrote: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Queer Fandom and Race, Nina Trivedi