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This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and it's paratextual elements including board and video games, podcasts, fan conventions, collectible figures, and ghostwritten novels.
List of contents
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
About the author
Eva Burke completed her PhD, funded by the Irish Research Council, at the school of English at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr. Clare Clarke. Her research looks at domestic noir fiction, specifically the work of Gillian Flynn. Eva has published work in the
Journal of International Women's Studies, Feminist Spaces and
Trinity Postgraduate Review and the 2018 edited collection
From the Domestic to the Dominant: The New Face of Crime Fiction, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She also co-edited a special 'domestic noir' issue of
Clues: A Journal of Detection. Jennifer Schnabel is associate professor and English subject librarian at The Ohio State University. She contributes scholarly book reviews
to Clues: A Journal of Detection and
Crime Fiction Studies, and her own research explores women and crime fiction. She recently co-chaired the Mystery and Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association and is the Research Support Officer for the International Crime Fiction Association.
Summary
This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and it’s paratextual elements including board and video games, podcasts, fan conventions, collectible figures, and ghostwritten novels.
