Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
Gin and Daggers

The first book in the Murder, She Wrote series, 1989

And special gratitude to an editor’s editor, Ellen Edwards; agent and friend for thirty-five years, Ted Chichak; treasured friends Phyllis James, Rosemary Goad, and Craig and Jill Thomas; the ebullient Sally Bulloch of London’s superb Athenaeum Hotel amp; Apartments; the entire crew of that grand lady, the QE2; and, of course, my collaborator, Jessica Fletcher.