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Murder, She Wrote: The Highland Fling Murders
Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
A Slaying in Scotland Jessica Fletcher and a group of her friends from Cabot
Cove, Maine, take off for the British Isles and end up at a
castle in Scotland. It would be a great vacation – except
for the ghost. And the murders. Scotland’s most celebrated witch, executed long ago with a
pitchfork through her heart, is said to haunt Inspector
George Sutherland’s family castle in the village of Wick.
It’s an intriguing tale and after a British book tour,
Jessica accepts Sutherland’s invitation to bring her Cabot
Cove friends to the heather-covered Highlands. Indeed,
after “roamin’ in the gloamin’” with the handsome
inspector, she spots a spectral woman in white in the
gloomy castle. But Jessica’s blood runs cold when she
later finds a local lass executed in the same way as the
legendary witch. Something is very vile in Wick. It’s a
castle of evil, greed, and murder that pits Jessica
Fletcher against a killer from this world – or maybe the
next.
Signet (Mystery), April 1997
304 pages ISBN: 0451188519 Paperback (reprint) $5.99
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