tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post8548657876045405384..comments2024-03-29T07:54:19.736-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: Murder Here, Murder There, Murdered Bodies EverywhereP. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-11783273657445013392013-07-13T16:10:17.786-07:002013-07-13T16:10:17.786-07:00You mean -------- ?????????? Jessica imagined all ...You mean -------- ?????????? Jessica imagined all those murders? Well, I feel very foolish! But what about Miss Marple and all the dead bodies in her little village? Miss Marple was not the writer Agatha Christie....P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-60904142255229063352013-07-12T13:00:55.979-07:002013-07-12T13:00:55.979-07:00This note is long overdue, but as "Murder She...This note is long overdue, but as "Murder She Wrote" was one of my favorite TV shows, I still wanted to comment. My take on how that many murders could happen in a small community around one person is that she was telling us stories. They were the stories she was writing. If I remember correctly, the opening always ended with Jessica at her typewriter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-9897202228801317192013-06-22T06:30:00.600-07:002013-06-22T06:30:00.600-07:00Funny you should mention Jessica Fletcher, dmarks....Funny you should mention Jessica Fletcher, dmarks. I was thinking as I wrote this -- and then talking to someone yesterday in the bookstore -- about Cabot Cove and the unbelievable number of homicides there.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-32583561685013331662013-06-22T02:47:57.409-07:002013-06-22T02:47:57.409-07:00"Ah Pamela, murder is not as rare as you migh..."Ah Pamela, murder is not as rare as you might like to think in our pleasant North Country."<br /><br />As long as it doesn't get to be like "Murder She Wrote".....<br /><br /><b>"An amusing interpretation (lampshaded in the show, no less) is that there is no better explanation for the sheer number of murders the lead character encounters throughout the long run of the series than her involvement in all of them. Indeed, if Cabot Cove alone were really to have suffered that many murders, it would top the national crime statistics by several orders of magnitude (as mentioned below, Cabot Cove has an estimated murder rate eighty-six times that of the most murderous city in the real world.) Also, if you're Jessica Fletcher's friend in any capacity but not an episode regular, you're pretty much doomed either to kill someone or be killed, or be wrongly arrested for being a killer."</b> - from <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MurderSheWrote?from=Main.MurderSheWrote" rel="nofollow">Television Tropes and Idioms</a><br />dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-76484194525349794682013-06-20T04:37:44.743-07:002013-06-20T04:37:44.743-07:00When you think about it, it's strange how affe...When you think about it, it's strange how affected we are by the suspense, even when we know the genre demands justice in the end. That's probably the appeal -- excitement and suspense resolved to our satisfaction. P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-18350165970464115752013-06-19T18:45:11.744-07:002013-06-19T18:45:11.744-07:00Exciting and scary! :) Love a good mystery!Exciting and scary! :) Love a good mystery!Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00824027366993286152noreply@blogger.com