Fletch Won

Fletch Won

infobox Book |
name = Fletch Won
title_orig =
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Gregory Mcdonald
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country = United States
language = English
series = Fletch series
genre = Mystery, Comedy Novel
publisher = Warner Books
release_date = 19 September 1985
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 265 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-446-51325-3 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by =
followed_by = Fletch, Too

"Fletch Won" is the eighth book in the Fletch series of mystery/comedy novels written by Gregory Mcdonald, and was published in 1985. The story is set before the first seven books in the series, and follows the early days of the title character's journalism career. Fletch scores his first big interview, only to have the subject turn up dead in the newspaper's parking lot. He investigates, beginning his dual profession of journalist and investigator.

A film adaptation of the novel has been in development for some time with a number of different persons attached.

Plot summary

During what is effectively a prequel, Fletch has only been at the News-Tribune as a junior reporter for a short time and Frank (his editor) is losing respect for his new employee. Frank moves Fletch to a different section of the newspaper more than once, but Fletch continues to cause trouble. When Fletch is to run the story of local lawyer Donald Habeck, who requests an interview in order to announce that he is giving 5 million dollars to a local museum, the lawyer turns up dead in the News-Tribune parking lot.

Unsurprisingly Frank takes Fletch off the story and gives it to an experienced reporter who has been with the paper for years. Fletch is now charged with investigating a whorehouse—which he does. However, he is not about to give up on the Habeck story, the circumstances of which seem mighty suspicious, especially when Fletch starts to suspect that the legal firm Habeck worked for is crooked and one of the most crooked firms around.

Characters in "Fletch Won"

*I. M. Fletcher (Fletch) – protagonist
*Frank Jaffe – Fletch's editor at the paper
*Donald Habeck – a lawyer, killed in the newspaper parking lot.

Release details

*1985, USA, Warner Books (ISBN 0-446-51325-3), Pub date ? ? 1985, hardback (First edition)
*1985, USA, Gollancz (ISBN 0-575-03726-1), Pub date ? ? 1985, hardback
*1988, USA, Outlet (ISBN 0-517-64797-4), Pub date ? April 1988, hardback
*1989, USA, Warner Books (ISBN 0-446-34095-2), Pub date 31 December 1989, paperback
*1993, USA, Thorndike Press (ISBN 0-89621-677-2), Pub date ? December 1993, hardback (Large Print edition)
*2002, USA, Vintage Books (ISBN 0-375-71352-2), Pub date ? July 2002, paperback

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