Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder.Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder.Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder.
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Camilla Søeberg
- Monika Vidal
- (as Camilla Soeberg)
Andreas Reinl
- Hendrik Kuyper
- (as Andreas Renell)
Bob Harks
- Hotel Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe last of four appearances by the late Theodore Bikel. He died on the 21st July 2015 (age 91)
- GoofsThe kidnapping victim locks his hotel room door as he enters it, but the room service waiter opens the door without a key.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Inspector Van Horn: Speaking of thank you, I have a gift. For you Mrs. Fletcher. A keepsake of you visit of Amsterdam.
Jessica Fletcher: Ooh. I wonder if I can guess what it is.
[Jessica opens the package to find a portrait of herself that Van Horm painted]
Jessica Fletcher: Oh!
Nigel Allison: You really captured her, Inspector.
Inspector Van Horn: Almost... Unfortunately, I had to let her go.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Featured review
A lovely city for conventions and intrigue
It's Amsterdam where Jessica Fletcher is in for this episode. She's at a writer's convention and meets yet another old friend Joseph Maher who is in town for the same event. Maher is a writer of spy novels and he writes from his own experiences.
A rather elaborate and well planned kidnapping of Maher is carried off, but not without arousing the suspicions of Angela Lansbury. The problem is who to trust.
Theodore Bikel plays the Amsterdam PD inspector and he's not quite as tolerant of Jessica Fletcher doing her own investigation as many other law enforcement officials in other episodes are. Besides he also has a related homicide to solve that Jessica and the various British Intelligence operatives aren't making easier.
Nicely done and nice solved of course in a story with the kidnappers themselves not really trusting each other. The episode reminds me a bit of the classic Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent.
A rather elaborate and well planned kidnapping of Maher is carried off, but not without arousing the suspicions of Angela Lansbury. The problem is who to trust.
Theodore Bikel plays the Amsterdam PD inspector and he's not quite as tolerant of Jessica Fletcher doing her own investigation as many other law enforcement officials in other episodes are. Besides he also has a related homicide to solve that Jessica and the various British Intelligence operatives aren't making easier.
Nicely done and nice solved of course in a story with the kidnappers themselves not really trusting each other. The episode reminds me a bit of the classic Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent.
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