Episode 25 of the Cosy Crime Classics Podcast sees us catch up with Jessica Fletcher when she gets mixed up with a gumshoe on the trail of his partner’s killer, as we take a look at Tough Guys Don’t Die, from Season 1 of Murder, She Wrote. In this episode, Gerry and Iain discuss jangling.
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This week, Jessica is dragged into the noir world of private investigators when the man she hires to investigate a cold case, Archie Miles (Floyd Levine), gets murdered himself. Butting heads with Miles’ partner Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach), sights turn to suspects including Ernie Santini (Alex Rocco) and Priscilla Daniels (Barbara Babcock), but is there something about Harry’s colleague Ray Kravitz (Gerald O’Loughlin) that doesn’t quite sit right?
This episode was directed by Seymour Robbie. The writer was Peter S. Fischer.
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Tough Guys Don’t Die was released in 1985. It is 47 minutes long and originally aired on CBS. Episodes are available on DVD and to purchase on streaming services in some territories.
