Gin and Daggers

Jessica Fletcher. Avon Books, $3.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71166-6

Fletcher attends a writers' convention in London where she becomes a suspect in the stabbing death of a popular author. ``The mystery-writer heroine of TV's Murder, She Wrote here actually writes about a murder . . . a Jessica Fletcher puzzler sure to win new fans,'' PW predicted. (Nov.)

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