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 2. Women Writing for Television's Woman Writer: The Fourteen Women Writers of Murder, She Wrote 3. Murder She Wrote: Bridging the Gap Between the Golden Age and Cosy Mysteries Part II: Jessica Fletcher, Gender, and Detection 4. Misogyny She Wrote: How Murder, She Wrote Typifies the Backlash Against Feminism 5.

"This Woman Has a Brilliant Criminal Mind": Information Behavior of a Widow Woman from Maine 6. The Undercover Feminism of Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote 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 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 9. From Murder, She Wrote to La Signora in Giallo: Jessica Fletcher as a Pop Culture Icon in Italy 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 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 13. Re-watching Murder, She Wrote : An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Queer Fandom and Race.