One Good Bid Deserves a Murder
A classic murder case for the scholarly sleuth. At the request of Richard Bennett, a friend and a popular actor, Jessica Fletcher goes to an auction to bid for the diary of a dead woman whose journal was stolen on the night of her death. Jessica soon discovers that many more people are intent on getting their hands on the diary but before any bids are made, Bennett is found murdered and the diary goes missing again., A lot of people are ready to kill for a sex symbol’s diary that’s on the auction block—and one of them does. Harry McGraw: Jerry Orbach. Sal Domino: Vic Tayback. Dr. Sylvia Dunn: Karen Black. Robert Rhine: Cotter Smith. Sheila Saxon: Nancy Grahn., Murder mystery series. At the request of Richard Bennett, a friend and a popular actor, Jessica Fletcher goes to an auction to bid for the diary of a dead woman whose journal was stolen on the night of her death. Jessica soon discovers that many more people are intent on getting their hands on the diary but before any bids are made, Bennett is found murdered and the diary goes missing again., A lot of people are ready to kill for a sex symbol’s diary that’s on the auction block—and one of them does., Jerry Orbach returns as hard-boiled Boston private eye Harry McGraw, who once again teams up with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to solve a murder. This time the victim is a popular actor, who had agreed to serve as one of the auctioneers accepting bids for a torrid diary written by a onetime sex symbol. Not only is the author of the diary under suspicion, but so are several others who’d been a part of her tragic past, obliging Jessica to burrow through the sizeable suspect list so that Harry can make a pinch. Watch for Angela Lansbury’s former Picture of Dorian Gray costar Hurd Hatfield–not to mention Jean VanderPyl, the longtime voice of cartoondom’s Wilma Flintstone!, At the request of Richard Bennett, a friend and a popular actor, Jessica Fletcher goes to an auction to bid for the diary of a dead woman whose journal was stolen on the night of her death. Jessica soon discovers that many more people are intent on getting their hands on the diary but before any bids are made, Bennett is found murdered and the diary goes missing again.
