Killer Writing

Jessica Fletcher is AMAZING. After Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote has got to have been the best TV Show ever made. Or maybe I have a granny fetish. Anyway, I first watched this amazing show growing up in Italy, where it still plays and is simply called "Jessica Fletcher" and ever since, this crime solving woman never ceases to impress me with her ability to simultaneously shmooze AND solve murders. For instance today (I watched 3 episodes on A&E), and in the more noteworthy one, Jessica left Cabot Cove to go to LA (her first visit) to sort out a movie director who was adapting her bestseller "The Corpse Danced at Midnight" (which incidentally, is another great episode in the show). Well. Fast forward, obviously the director is murdered on, where else but the studio's graveyard set. And she just HAPPENS to be there with her flashlight, finds and identifies all the button and cigarette butts in the vicinity and then exposes the murderer. The peak of the show's dramatic flair was when she was raising a toast to 'all my newfound friends (the cast of the movie, that had all become her BFFs since she had excuplated them from having killed anyone, of course!). Like how does anyone DO that? Go to LA, not know anyone, but solve a murder and then befriend a fleet of Hollywood actors and then go home to Maine to write a book about it? AMAZING. The best part was when, after her toast. she said to screenwriter eyeing the Champagne (no wait - it's California - must have been sparkling Chardonnay), of whom we had learned earlier in the show, was a recovering alcoholic:
"Maybe you'd prefer a diet cola?" Can SHE run for president?