List of Murder, She Wrote novels

Over the course of the long-running Murder, She Wrote television series, fictional mystery author turned sleuth, Jessica Fletcher, played by actress Angela Lansbury, publishes a series of fictional novels under the pen name J. B. Fletcher. In the pilot episode, "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes", we witness her rise to fame following the release of her first novel, The Corpse Danced at Midnight. The book would later be made into a movie in the episode "Hooray for Homicide". Her book A Murder Comes to Maine becomes the basis of a Broadway play in the episode "Deadpan". Her book A Killing at Hastings Rock undergoes development to become a virtual reality video game in the episode "A Virtual Murder".

The title The Stain on the Stairs, mentioned in the episode "The Days Dwindle Down", had previously been used by author Agatha Christie in The Murder at the Vicarage as the title of a supposed detective story.

In keeping with the spirit of the television show, a series of official original novels have been written and published. The co-author credited for all of the novels is the fictitious "Jessica Fletcher". The first novel, Gin & Daggers, originally published in 1989, authored by American ghostwriter Donald Bain, included several inaccuracies to the television series including Jessica driving a car which she could not do as she never learned to drive. Due to fans pointing out the errors, the novel was republished in 2000 with most of the inaccuracies corrected.