Murder She Wrote: Panning for Murder
by Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher

Jessica's much-deserved cruise becomes a working vacation when her friend Kathy tags along, hoping to locate her sister Wilimena, who vanished from the same vessel. Distantly related to Alaska's most famous madam—a woman who may have struck it rich during the Gold Rush—Wilimena apparently took the cruise to find the treasure.

Now, as Jessica and Kathy investigate Wilimena's disappearance, they learn that she was quite outspoken about her gold claim—and may have attracted the wrong kind of attention. And now that attention has been turned on Jessica and Kathy.

Other Books by Donald Bain

Murder, She Wrote: Design For Murder
Murder, She Wrote #45

Murder, She Wrote: the Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher
Murder She Wrote, Book 44

Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen
Murder, She Wrote #43

Murder, She Wrote: Death of a Blue Blood
Murder, She Wrote #42

Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed
Murder, She Wrote #41

Murder, She Wrote: Close-Up On Murder
Murder, She Wrote #40

Murder, She Wrote: Prescription For Murder
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote: Domestic Malice
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Murder, She Wrote: Trouble at High Tide
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote: The Fine Art of Murder
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Murder, She Wrote: Skating on Thin Ice
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote: The Queen's Jewels

Murder, She Wrote: Nashville Noir
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Murder, She Wrote: Murder Never Takes a Holiday

Murder, She Wrote: A Fatal Feast

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Donald Bain's Bio

Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher's longtime collaborator, is the author or ghost/author of more than 80 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his books, the airline comedy, Coffee Tea or Me?, published almost 30 years ago, together with its sequels sold more than 5-million copies worldwide and was the basis of a television movie-of-the-week.

Bain is a graduate of Purdue University and received its highest award for his work in educational radio and television. (He was designated a Purdue "Distinguished Alumni" for 2003.) He went on to work professionally in broadcasting in Texas and Indiana, and co-hosted more than 200 shows in New York with Long John Nebel, then king of late-night talk-radio.

A public relations executive for McCann-Erickson and American Airlines, Bain also was a consultant to Pan Am for the introduction of the 747, the takeover of National Airlines, and a national campaign to promote air travel. Two of these projects earned Silver Anvil awards from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). In 1985, with his wife, he co-founded Hyphenates, Ltd., which has provided editorial services to a wide variety of companies.

Bain has worked for over 30 years as a professional jazz musician, has taught at the college level and has written myriad magazine articles. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, the Writer's Guild of America, the Authors Guild, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Mystery Writers of America.

Don Bain is married to Renée Paley-Bain, also a writer, and who collaborates with him on the "Murder, She Wrote" series. He has two grown daughters and four grandsons.