Murder, She Wrote

Parisian slave-labor sweatshops provide the setting for the crimes, and the pretentious world of fashion is where Jessica solves them.

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

When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then murdered, Jessica sets the record strait when the wrong man is arrested.

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

A dear friend's involvement with the theft of a priceless Egyptian relic and a murder birng Jessica to the rescue.

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

A book fair in Miami becomes Jessica's backdrop when she teams with a Russian detective to solve an art theft and murder.

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

A Cabot Cove resident is killed in Jessica's garage.

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

Private investigator Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique vacationing at the same time he is accused of murdering the woman he's been trying to locate for a client.

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

While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.

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

The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.

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.

When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.

An old established store has closed for the last time and its accountant won't have to find another job.

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

Jessica is shocked to learn that her editor has taken a flying leap from his high-rise office.

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

A piece of sculpture does double duty as a murder weapon.

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.

In Canada, a land war breaks out between Native Americans and a mining company.

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

A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.

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

An American nephew, out to get the family business, gets a different kind and the Irish widow's son is suspected.

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.

Jessica is fascinated by a demo of a VR game based on her book, but, while playing it, she thinks she sees a real murder.

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

A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.

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

A trader working on a merger dies at a Chinese banquet in Hong Kong.

Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

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.

A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.

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

The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.

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

The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

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

The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

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

After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!

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

The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.

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.

While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

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

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

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

There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

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.

A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

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.

Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.

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

The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.

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

Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and 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.

Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

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.

The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.

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

When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.

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.

Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.

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.

A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.

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

An argument over stud fees ends in murder.

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.

A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.

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

Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.

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

Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.

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

Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.

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

A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.

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

A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.

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

An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.

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

Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.

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

Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.

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

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.

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 homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.

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

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

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.

An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a furniture store. Are these events connected?

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

When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.

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

A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.

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

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

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.

Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.

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 purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

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

When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

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

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

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

A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.

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

A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

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

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

When Jessica is arrested for murder, secret agent Michael Haggerty and her nephew Grady conspire to keep her safely in jail while they seek the real killer.

Someone wants the old historic house enough to kill for it and its supposed hidden treasure AND Jessica is executor of the late owner's will.

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

Jessica gets herself into a mess of trouble after overhearing the dying words of a professional hitman. When she investigates the murder of Adam Cosgrove, she soon discovers that no one seems to want to admit he's missing, let alone dead. With the help of a prickly police sergeant and a priest who isn't quite what he seems, Jessica discovers that the man who was killed was in charge of leading a top-secret government mission to protect a foreign diplomat, and that someone in the safehouse has gone to the other side.

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.

Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.

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.

Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.

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.

A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.

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.

The special effects used by a TV producer are a real bomb.

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

Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

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

A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.

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

A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case involving her close friends and former students.

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.

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

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

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

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

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

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

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

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.

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

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.

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

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

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

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

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

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.

Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.

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

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.

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.

Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.

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.

One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation.

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

When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder out of it. Michael Dugby: Parker Stevenson. Harry Pierce: John Astin. Frederich Hoffman: Paul Benedict. Adam Frobisher: Christopher Stone. Edna: Evelyn Keyes.

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

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. Then the horse's owner is murdered after a dispute.

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

Jessica decides to pay a visit to her long-time friend Francesca, only to learn that Francesca, who is now married to a much younger man, is convinced that she is being haunted by the ghost of her first husband, Ross. When her new husband, Scott, turns up dead, the investigation reveals that he had been poisoned, and suspicion turns to Francesca. Jessica, however, is determined to prove that her friend did not commit the crime, and begins looking into the mysterious re-appearances of her dead husband.

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

When Jessica is offered an honorary degree from Crenshaw University, she has no idea she's about to become embroiled in a murder. After the boyfriend of (in)famous writer Daphne Clover is found murdered, Jessica agrees to assist the chief of police, who has never had a murder case before, find out who the killer is. She soon has more on her plate than she bargained for when first Daphne's mother confesses, then Daphne herself confesses. Jessica realises the two women are simply trying to protect each other, and begins to look at the faculty at the university.

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

Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of Joshua Peabody. Not everyone is thus inclined though, and many people believe it's just a random dead body. But when Jessica and Amos head back to the dig site, they find there's another body there! Jessica not only has to find out who killed Wheatley, she has to help an old friend when his past comes back to haunt him.