264 Episodes, Decades Of Reruns, And 50 Spin-Off Novels - Why `Murder, She Wrote´ Endures
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Sure, it’s because of Jessica Fletcher, both an independent woman and a nice old lady who fights crime with a sharp eye instead of a gun. And the TV scripts were solid. Yet, observes Jon Land (who wrote that 50th novel), what made the franchise different from earlier crime series was the setting of Cabot […]