These are just some of the ingredients when American crime writing author Jessica Fletcher inherits a whole valley passed down by an Irish ancestor who was hanged for bank robbery in the Queensland badlands , where the sheep ranchers are trigger happy and fighting mad over the suggestion that the choice grazing valley is going to be handed over to overseas interests ...The Indian Adani coal mine , the Australian Defence Department seizing rural properties to make Singapore bigger than Texas ? No- Orbit , a Yank bauxite company .
The action takes place in Kookaburra Downs , reached by bus from Brisbane , where the sergeant in charge , an obvious British actor , is called a Pommie bastard by a true blue Aussie actor . Strangely, the online script says the sergeant is merely a git , but admits some content was lost .
Then there is Melba (named after Dame Nellie Melba ? ) Drummond who never seems to have a cigar out of her mouth , offers one to Jessica , and has a kerchief wearing son , Roo , who knows a wholesome girl who kisses and cuddles kangaroos .
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Roo's mammy helping police with their investigations .
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Over at the noisy Kookaburra Arms pub , which looks like an upmarket boozer compared with the one in Crocodile Dundee , the smelly sheep ranchers, who swill Fosters , not Queensland four x , look like bit players from an early Hollywood western, or the thirsty mob that gathers when word gets out that Bob Katter , the one in the Marlboro Country hat , mounted on a ride on mower mustang , is going to shout for the house during a visit to Cloncurry . Jessica gets a real feeling of the Australian outback when she is filmed next to a large framed print of Uluru in the Northern Territory .
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Corn and popcorn consumed during the viewing .
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