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Murder, She Wrote: Murder on the QE2
Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
A Queen-Sized Slaying Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove, Main’s acclaimed mystery
writer, finds herself in treacherous waters when a dream
voyage on the transatlantic luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2
becomes a nightmare journey into danger. Jessica has accepted an offer that seems too good to be
true. All she has to do for a fabulous free trip on the
QU2 is give a pair of lectures on the art of mystery and
script a play to entertain her fellow passengers. But when
a legendary leading lady is slain, the drama turns deadly.
Jessica barely has time for champagne and caviar as she
sorts through suspects who include a TV mogul and his
trophy wife, a famed Italian chef, a dashing mountain
climber, the judge in a notorious California murder trial,
and a boatload of other beautiful people with ugly
secrets. When murder strikes again, Jessica must combine
her sleuthing skills with her writing talents to craft the
masterpiece of her mystery-solving career – before the
world’s premier floating palace sinks in a sea of blood.
Signet (Mystery), October 1997
304 pages ISBN: 0451192915 Paperback (reprint) $5.99
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