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Murder, She Wrote (1984)
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Angela Lansbury — Producer
Episodes 264
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel, but when an unwanted guest is murdered at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.
Read MoreDeadly Lady
After a terrible storm, Stephen Earl's four daughters tell Sheriff Tupper that their father died while they were out on the boat. Jessica is only midly intrigued; she finds Ralph, the older gentleman who has offered to work for food, much more intriguing, especially since it is obvious he comes from money. The womens' stories about what happened on the boat change constantly, but once Ralph is found dead and later found to be Stephen Earl, Jessica has to help Amos wage through the inconsistencies in the four Earl daughters storylines to determine who killed their father and why.
Read MoreBirds of a Feather
Jessica heads to San Francisco for the wedding of her niece, Victoria Brandon, only to learn that Victoria is having second thoughts because she suspects that her fiancé, Howard, is having an affair. Although Jessica and Victoria are relieved to learn that Howard isn't cheating but rather dressing up as a woman to perform at a nightclub, the relief is short lived when Howard is arrested for murdering his boss, Al Drake, who had been refusing to pay him. The police are convinced that Drake was shot during Freddy York's act, which doesn't leave a lot of time, but Jessica is determined to prove Howard's innocence.
Read MoreHooray for Homicide
Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion picture, backed by producer Jerry Lydecker. Jessica is furious to see how her book is being butchered by Lydecker and his crew. She heads out to Hollywood to confront Lydecker, but things take a turn when Lydecker is found dead on stage. Jessica ends up being the prime suspect in the murder, but luckily the officer in charge of the investigation believes she's too smart to be the killer and sets her up to find the real murderer.
Read MoreIt's a Dog's Life
While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.
Read MoreLovers and Other Killers
While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.
Read MoreHit, Run and Homicide
Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.
Read MoreWe're Off to Kill the Wizard
Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.
Read MoreDeath Takes a Curtain Call
While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.
Read MoreDeath Casts a Spell
Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.
Read MoreCapitol Offense
Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.
Read MoreBroadway Malady
Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.
Read MoreMurder to a Jazz Beat
While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.
Read MoreMy Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?
Read MorePaint Me a Murder
The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.
Read MoreTough Guys Don't Die
Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.
Read MoreSudden Death
Jessica suddenly must learn all about football when she inherits an interest in a professional team.
Read MoreFootnote to Murder
An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention.
Read MoreMurder Takes the Bus
Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.
Read MoreArmed Response
Over Jessica's protests, she is taken to a hospital after a minor accident in the airport.
Read MoreMurder at the Oasis
An unpopular show-business personality discovers that elaborate security systems are no guarantee of safety.
Read MoreFuneral at Fifty-Mile
A Wyoming rancher leaves all to an ill-fated stranger, to the disgust of his disinherited daughter.
Read MoreWidow, Weep for Me
Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.
Read MoreJoshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly
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.
Read MoreMurder in the Afternoon
While filming a soap opera in which Mrs. Fletcher's niece plays a part, a 'pretend' victim is really dead.
Read MoreSchool for Scandal
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.
Read MoreSing a Song of Murder
When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.
Read MoreReflections of the Mind
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.
Read MoreA Lady in the Lake
While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.
Read MoreJessica Behind Bars
Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.
Read MoreSticks and Stones
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.
Read MoreMurder Digs Deep
An archaeological dig at the site of Coronado's City of Gold does not please everyone and a new corpse is dug up.
Read MoreMurder by Appointment Only
One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation.
Read MoreTrial by Error
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.
Read MoreKeep the Home Fries Burning
Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.
Read MorePowder Keg
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.
Read MoreMurder in the Electric Cathedral
Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.
Read MoreOne Good Bid Deserves a Murder
A red hot diary of a sex symbol is to be auctioned and some of the bidders are ready to shed blood.
Read MoreIf A Body Meet A Body
Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.
Read MoreChristopher Bundy -- Died On Sunday
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.
Read MoreMenace, Anyone?
Who was the intended victim when a tennis star is blown up in his girl friend's car?
Read MoreThe Perfect Foil
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.
Read MoreIf the Frame Fits
After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, suspicion turns to her husband Donald, who, as a result, also ends up being suspected in a recent rash of art thefts where there were no fatalities. Julia's sister Sabrina is convinced that Donald didn't do it and begs Jessica for help. While looking into Julia's murder, Jessica realises that she has two completely different criminals on her hands, and someone tampered with the scene of Julia's murder to make it look like something else.
Read MoreDeath Stalks the Big Top (1)
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.
Read MoreDeath Stalks the Big Top (2)
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.
Read MoreUnfinished Business
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
Read MoreOne White Rose for Death
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
Read MoreCorned Beef And Carnage
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
Read MoreDead Man's Gold
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
Read MoreDeadline for Murder
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.
Read MoreMagnum on Ice (II)
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).
Read MoreObituary for a Dead Anchor
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.
Read MoreStage Struck
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
Read MoreNight of the Headless Horseman
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
Read MoreThe Corpse Flew First Class
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
Read MoreCrossed Up
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
Read MoreMurder in a Minor Key
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
Read MoreThe Bottom Line Is Murder
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
Read MoreDeath Takes a Dive
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
Read MoreSimon Says, Color Me Dead
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
Read MoreNo Laughing Murder
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
Read MoreNo Accounting for Murder
Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
Read MoreThe Cemetery Vote
First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the ""accident"".
Read MoreThe Days Dwindle Down
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.
Read MoreMurder, She Spoke
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
Read MoreA Fashionable Way to Die
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.
Read MoreWhen Thieves Fall Out
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.
Read MoreWitness for the Defense
Jessica goes to Quebec to testify at the trial of a friend who is accused of killing his wife and burning his house.
Read MoreOld Habits Die Hard
A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.
Read MoreThe Way To Dusty Death
After the 'accidental' death of a tycoon, his associates battle for position to succeed him.
Read MoreIt Runs In The Family
Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.
Read MoreIf It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly
When Deputy Martin becomes a widower by murder, the investigation turns up some surprising activity.
Read MoreSteal Me a Story
The special effects used by a TV producer are a real bomb.
Read MoreTrouble in Eden
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.
Read MoreIndian Giver
A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.
Read MoreDoom with a View
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.
Read MoreWho Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.
Read MoreHarbinger of Death
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.
Read MoreCurse of the Daanav
Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.
Read MoreMourning Among the Wisterias
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.
Read MoreMurder Through the Looking Glass
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.
Read MoreA Very Good Year for Murder
The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.
Read MoreBenedict Arnold Slipped Here
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.
Read MoreJust Another Fish Story
Somebody put the maitre d' on ice. Jessica wonders if she has made a bad investment.
Read MoreShowdown in Saskatchewan
Arson is intended to remove the Rodeo doctor and his patient permanently.
Read MoreThe Body Politic
The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites the press.
Read MoreJ.B. As in Jailbird
A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.
Read MoreA Little Night Work
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
Read MoreMr. Penroy's Vacation
The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
Read MoreSnow White, Blood Red
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
Read MoreCoal Miner's Slaughter
The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
Read MoreWearing of the Green
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.
Read MoreThe Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Read MorePrediction: Murder
A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
Read MoreSomething Borrowed, Someone Blue
Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
Read MoreWeave a Tangled Web
Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
Read MoreThe Search for Peter Kerry
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Read MoreSmooth Operators
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?
Read MoreFire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
Read MoreFrom Russia ... With Blood
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
Read MoreAlma Murder
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?
Read MoreTruck Stop
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.
Read MoreThe Sins of Castle Cove
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.
Read MoreTrevor Hudson's Legacy
A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
Read MoreDouble Exposure
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.
Read MoreThree Strikes, You're Out
A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
Read MoreMirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
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.
Read MoreMirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.
Read MoreAppointment in Athens
Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.
Read MoreSeal of the Confessional
A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.
Read MoreThe Grand Old Lady
When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.
Read MoreThe Error of Her Ways
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.
Read MoreJack and Bill
A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.
Read MoreDead Letter
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?
Read MoreNight of the Tarantula
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.
Read MoreWhen the Fat Lady Sings
The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.
Read MoreTest of Wills
A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.
Read MoreTown Father
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.
Read MoreGoodbye Charlie
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.
Read MoreIf the Shoe Fits
A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.
Read MoreHow To Make a Killing Without Really Trying
Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.
Read MoreThe Fixer-upper
Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.
Read MoreThe Big Show of 1965
Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.
Read MoreMurder: According to Maggie
The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.
Read MoreO'Malley's Luck
An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.
Read MoreAlways a Thief
Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.
Read MoreShear Madness
Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.
Read MoreThe Szechuan Dragon
Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.
Read MoreThe Sicilian Encounter
Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.
Read MoreTrials & Tribulations
Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.
Read MoreDeadly Misunderstanding
A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.
Read MoreSee You in Court, Baby
Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.
Read MoreHannigan's Wake
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.
Read MoreThe Family Jewels
A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected
Read MoreA Body to Die For
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.
Read MoreThe Return of Preston Giles
This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
Read MoreThe Great Twain Robbery
Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.
Read MoreBallad for a Blue Lady
Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.
Read MoreMurder in F Sharp
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.
Read MoreFamily Doctor
In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.
Read MoreSuspicion of Murder
Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.
Read MoreMoving Violation
An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.
Read MoreWho Killed J.B. Fletcher?
A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.
Read MoreThe Taxman Cometh
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.
Read MoreFrom the Horse's Mouth
An argument over stud fees ends in murder.
Read MoreThe Prodigal Father
A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
Read MoreWhere Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.
Read MoreThursday's Child
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.
Read MoreMurder, Plain & Simple
When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
Read MoreTainted Lady
The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.
Read MoreThe Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.
Read MoreBite the Big Apple
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.
Read MoreNight Fears
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.
Read MoreUnauthorized Obituary
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.
Read MoreThicker Than Water
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.
Read MoreLines of Excellence
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
Read MoreTerminal Connection
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.
Read MoreA Killing in Vegas
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
Read MoreThe Committee
The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
Read MoreThe List of Yuri Lermentov
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
Read MoreDanse Diabolique
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
Read MoreThe Witch's Curse
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.
Read MoreIncident in Lot 7
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
Read MoreThe Monte Carlo Murders
Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
Read MoreTinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
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.
Read MoreEver After
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
Read MoreTo the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
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.
Read MoreProgrammed for Murder
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
Read MoreDay of the Dead
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.
Read MoreAngel of Death
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
Read MoreBadge of Honor
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
Read MoreMurder On Madison Avenue
Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
Read MoreMurder in Milan
During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.
Read MoreFamily Secrets
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.
Read MoreThe Wind Around the Tower
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.
Read MoreThe Dead File
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.
Read MoreNight of the Coyote
The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.
Read MoreSugar & Spice, Malice & Vice
Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.
Read MoreThe Classic Murder
After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!
Read MoreA Christmas Secret
The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.
Read MoreThe Sound of Murder
The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.
Read MoreFinal Curtain
The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.
Read MoreDouble Jeopardy
The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.
Read MoreKiller Radio
The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.
Read MoreThe Petrified Florist
Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?
Read MoreThreshold of Fear
A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.
Read MoreThe Big Kill
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.
Read MoreDead to Rights
Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?
Read MoreLone Witness
A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.
Read MoreShip of Thieves
A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.
Read MoreThe Survivor
Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.
Read MoreLove's Deadly Desire
The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.
Read MoreA Death in Hong Kong
A trader working on a merger dies at a Chinese banquet in Hong Kong.
Read MoreFor Whom the Ball Tolls
One of the partners trying to raze a Brownstone where Hemmingway once wrote is erased--permanently.
Read MoreThe Legacy of Borbey House
A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.
Read MoreThe Phantom Killer
A media tycoon may have been killed by a literary agent who seems as substantial as smoke.
Read MoreA Virtual Murder
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.
Read MoreBloodlines
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.
Read MoreA Killing in Cork
An American nephew, out to get the family business, gets a different kind and the Irish widow's son is suspected.
Read MoreLove and Hate in Cabot Cove
There are three suspects in the murder of a crooked deputy: a CPA, an illegal casino owner and his daughter's jilted lover.
Read MoreMurder at a Discount
A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.
Read MoreMurder in White
A producer staging an adaptation of one of Jessica's novels finds no joy in London.
Read MoreNorthern Explosion
In Canada, a land war breaks out between Native Americans and a mining company.
Read MoreProof In The Pudding
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.
Read MorePortrait of Death
A piece of sculpture does double duty as a murder weapon.
Read MoreDeadly Assets
A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.
Read MoreMurder on the Thirtieth Floor
Jessica is shocked to learn that her editor has taken a flying leap from his high-rise office.
Read MoreTime to Die
A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.
Read MoreThe Dying Game
An old established store has closed for the last time and its accountant won't have to find another job.
Read MoreThe Trouble with Seth
Seth vanishes and every one is sure there was foul play.
Read MoreA Murderous Muse
The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.
Read MoreWheel of Death
It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.
Read MoreA Nest of Vipers
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.
Read MoreAmsterdam Kill
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.
Read MoreTo Kill a Legend
The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.
Read MoreDeath in Hawaii
Poor Jessica can't take a vacation without finding mystery or murder. In this case, it is an election campaign gone bad.
Read MoreDear Deadly
While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.
Read MoreThe Murder Channel
In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.
Read MoreFatal Paradise
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.
Read MoreCrimson Harvest
Jessica investigates two brutal murders at a struggling winery in Sonoma Valley.
Read MoreMurder by Twos
A Cabot Cove resident is killed in Jessica's garage.
Read MoreMurder of the Month Club
Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.
Read MoreAn Egg to Die For
A book fair in Miami becomes Jessica's backdrop when she teams with a Russian detective to solve an art theft and murder.
Read MoreThe Scent of Murder
Jessica helps Seth solve family problems when his rich southern cousin is murdered.
Read MoreDeath 'n Denial
A dear friend's involvement with the theft of a priceless Egyptian relic and a murder birng Jessica to the rescue.
Read MoreMurder in High-C
Jessica finds herself crime-solving in a highly intense world of opera while in Genoa, Italy.
Read MoreTwice Dead
When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then murdered, Jessica sets the record strait when the wrong man is arrested.
Read MoreMurder a la Mode
Parisian slave-labor sweatshops provide the setting for the crimes, and the pretentious world of fashion is where Jessica solves them.
Read MoreThe Dream Team
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.
Read MoreSchool for Murder
It seems that there is more than schoolboy pranks going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.
Read MoreAnother Killing in Cork
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.
Read MoreGame, Set, Murder
A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems.
Read MoreA Quaking in Aspen
In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband, Grant Boswell.
Read MoreThe Secret of Gila Junction
People in a sleepy Arizona town, are threatened by a truck- stop bandit and suspicious treasure hunters.
Read MoreBig Easy Murder
Jessica travels to New Orleans to research a new novel, but gets caught up in a series of voodoo killings.
Read MoreNan's Ghost (1)
A spooky story set in an old Irish castle where legend has it that there is a ghost and a hidden treasure.
Read MoreNan's Ghost (2)
Jessica is trapped in the rat-infested dungeon of an ancient Irish castle, but uses her ingenuity to get rescued and find the treasure and a murderer.
Read MoreShooting in Rome
A movie set in Rome is the setting for a more than they planned while filming a J.B. Fletcher novel.
Read MoreDeadly Bidding
Jessica agrees to go to New York to bid on a manuscript purportedly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and while there, she gets mixed up in the murder of a local forger who had been involved in the theft of a priceless Degas painting two years earlier when she tries to help Charlie Garrett out of a jam.
Read MoreFrozen Stiff
What is the secret ingredient in the ice cream? Jessica means to find out and see that the donation for the literary foundation is paid as promised.
Read MoreUnwilling Witness
Jessica is called to testify before a grand jury after a victim's last phone call was traced to her number.
Read MoreKendo Killing
Motorcycle racing in Osaka, Japan, puts a man's life in danger when he tries to wed a girl from a traditional Japanese family.
Read MoreDeath Goes Double Platinum
The members of an up-and-coming Latin instrumental band get an offer they can't refuse just when they are getting noticed by a more reputable company.
Read MoreMurder in Tempo
A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert benefit in Cabot Cove.
Read MoreThe Dark Side of the Door
The victim of a childhood kidnapping sees more in the manuscript she is editing than coincidence would suggest.
Read MoreMurder Among Friends
A TV sitcom, Buds, turns out to be less friendly than the producer hoped.
Read MoreSomething Foul in Flappieville
The puppets are dancing to a different tune, much to the dismay of the young designer.
Read MoreTrack of a Soldier
The scene is a guest lodge in the Grand Tetons. Two of the guests are hiding secrets. Who has the diamond?
Read MoreEvidence of Malice
Deputy Andy bought a house with numerous defects from the victim and emerges as the chief suspect.
Read MoreSouthern Double-Cross
Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not all happy with this.
Read MoreRace To Death
Jessica is the honorary commodore of the World's Cup Race, featuring Kyle Kimball's Buccaneer and Ned Larkin's Free Spirit. There is much ill-will and Ned is injured, too much to skipper his craft. His daughter replaces him and then Kyle is killed. This is no way to run a regatta!
Read MoreWhat You Don't Know Can Kill You
Seth's niece returns to Cabot Cove for her wedding only to have her groom die ""accidentally"" before the event.
Read MoreMrs. Parker's Revenge
Jessica somehow gets tangled in a situation involving a deadly virus and an arms deal.
Read MoreDeath by Demographics
In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is trying to change their image by firing every staff member who is past a certain age and playing music for teen-agers only.
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