Murder, She Wrote

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.

The townspeople are concerned about a massive development on their shore and it is further complicated for Jessica since the firm employs her nephew, Grady.

Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.

Jessica finds herself crime-solving in a highly intense world of opera while in Genoa, Italy.

Jessica helps Seth solve family problems when his rich southern cousin is murdered.

Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.

Jessica investigates two brutal murders at a struggling winery in Sonoma Valley.

In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.

Poor Jessica can't take a vacation without finding mystery or murder. In this case, it is an election campaign gone bad.

While on a visit to Amsterdam, Jessica meets up with fellow novelist and old friend Nigel Allison. When Allison goes missing, Colin Biddle, who claims to be Allison's publishing liaison, try to convince her that nothing is wrong. Jessica soon realises that both Nigel and Colin are secret agents, and despite Colin's request for her to stay out of it, Jessica investigates Allison's disappearance and soon convinces a previously reluctant inspector that there is something terribly wrong. At the same time, Philip and Lydia de Kooning are trying to make a deal in diamonds, and when Philip turns up dead after Jessica gets a note supposedly from him, Jessica is the prime suspect in his murder.

The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.

Seth vanishes and every one is sure there was foul play.

A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.

A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.

When the chef of a restaurant who recently had over half his stock bought up by a well-known mobster dies, suspicion turns to Jessica's young friend Lorna Thompson, but when the mobster himself dies, Jessica realises there is more than meets the eye to this case.

A producer staging an adaptation of one of Jessica's novels finds no joy in London.

There are three suspects in the murder of a crooked deputy: a CPA, an illegal casino owner and his daughter's jilted lover.

A racehorse trainer is murdered as he is on his way to expose a racing fraud and there is some friction concerning his daughter's permission to ride in the race.

A media tycoon may have been killed by a literary agent who seems as substantial as smoke.

One of the partners trying to raze a Brownstone where Hemmingway once wrote is erased--permanently.

Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.

Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.

Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.

Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.

All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.

No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.

The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.

The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.

Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.

Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.

The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.

A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.

A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.

The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.

Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.

This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected

Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.

Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.

Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.

Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.

A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.

The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.

A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.

A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.

A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.

Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.

In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.

A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.

An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

Two critics take opposite views of a play based on one of Jessica's novels, 'Mainly Murder'. One is suspected of the murder of the other.

Somebody put the maitre d' on ice. Jessica wonders if she has made a bad investment.

The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.

Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old friend, Jonathan Keeler. While helping clear Eugene's name, Jessica learns that her friend believes he is dying, and is surprised when he asks her to marry him so that she can look after his affairs once he's gone. Jessica agrees, but only so that they can expose Jonathan's true killer.

Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.

Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now had been dating a frat brother who was married.

Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.

When Deputy Martin becomes a widower by murder, the investigation turns up some surprising activity.

After the 'accidental' death of a tycoon, his associates battle for position to succeed him.

Jessica goes to Quebec to testify at the trial of a friend who is accused of killing his wife and burning his house.

Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself entangled in a case involving fashion, finance and murder.

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while on her way to Houston. No sooner does Jessica get to New Orleans then she is tossed into a Mardi Gras party where the host ends up dead, and Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputation, Jessica delves into the world of cheating poker players, cheating girlfriends and vengefilled police officers while trying to convince a local lieutenant that Cal is not capable of murder.

Jessica and Grady head to the home of publisher Christopher Bundy, whose publishing company owns the rights to Jessica's first short story. Jessica is quite upset, as Bundy's magazine is known for it's racy pictures of young women. While there, Jessica is pleased to run into an old acquaintance, Chester Harrison, and when Harrison is accused of murdering Christopher Bundy, Jessica vows to prove his innocence but runs into trouble when the family isn't interested in having their own skeletons dragged out of the closet.

A red hot diary of a sex symbol is to be auctioned and some of the bidders are ready to shed blood.

After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner to be found dead, and young Matt Burns, the son of a former student of Ames', ends up accused of the murder. At the behest of Linda Bonner, the victim's sister who happens to care deeply about the accused, Jessica takes a look into the murder, but hatred runs deep in this town and it's pure luck (and Andy Crane) that leads Jessica and Ames to the right answer.

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

An archaeological dig at the site of Coronado's City of Gold does not please everyone and a new corpse is dug up.

Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.

While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.

While filming a soap opera in which Mrs. Fletcher's niece plays a part, a 'pretend' victim is really dead.

Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.

An unpopular show-business personality discovers that elaborate security systems are no guarantee of safety.

Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.

Jessica suddenly must learn all about football when she inherits an interest in a professional team.

The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.