How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying

Episode aired Feb 4, 1990
TV-PGTV-PG
47m

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7.7/10

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Angela Lansbury and Kevin Tighe in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Crime Drama Mystery

Jessica's trip to New York City to meet with her stockbroker becomes complicated when the broker is found murdered and his secretary charged with the crime.Jessica's trip to New York City to meet with her stockbroker becomes complicated when the broker is found murdered and his secretary charged with the crime.Jessica's trip to New York City to meet with her stockbroker becomes complicated when the broker is found murdered and his secretary charged with the crime.

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7.7/10

309

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Trivia
Interesting that the character Candice Ashcroft was pushing stock in a company developing High Definition television.

Quotes
[last lines]
Jessica Fletcher: You know , it sounds to me as if Wall Street is still in your blood. What are you planning to do?
Norma Pulaski: I'm gonna make it on Wall Street if it's the last thing I do, Mrs. Fletcher. I mean, I have got this terrific idea. Rudy makes this wonderful bread.
Rudy Bianco: "Heart Smart," all natural ingredients.
Norma Pulaski: How does that sound for a name?
Jessica Fletcher: Well, it's got a real ring.
Norma Pulaski: I'm going to incorporate Rudy's bakery, you know, issue stock. I- I figure, eventually, we could syndicate it. What do you think?
Jessica Fletcher: [to Lt. Moynihan] You know, knowing Norma, I think you should buy some of the stock.

Connections
References How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

Soundtracks
Murder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison

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7/10

The bulls and bears

With all the money that JB Fletcher makes with her novels it seems natural that she would be investing. The place she is investing with is a firm headed by partners Jerome Calvin and Farley Granger.

Calvin is the son of the original partner of the firm and he is getting in over his head a lot. But he has a good secretary in Lela Ivey whom he keeps trying to make, but her heart is loyal to her blue collar boyfriend Joe Maruzzo.

But when Calvin's head gets bashed in one night, the cops in the person of Detective Kenneth Tighe zero in on Ivey and Maruzzo. Of course it's not and that's when Angela Lansbury goes to work.

Good ensemble performances, singling out Edd Byrnes who has risen from parking cars on Sunset Boulevard back in his salad days to a too smooth broker. He's got a few angles he's working all by himself.

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