List of Murder, She Wrote episodes

Pilot episode.
After the successful publication of her first murder-mystery novel, Jessica Fletcher is invited to a costume ball by her publisher that she happens to be falling in love with at his mansion. When a guest dressed as Sherlock Holmes is murdered, all eyes turn to her to out-sleuth the assassin of the deceased "detective". 

A mysterious man who briefly stops by Jessica's house turns up dead, supposedly swept overboard during a hurricane before Jessica even met him. 

Pre-wedding jitters take on a new meaning for the fiancé of Jessica's niece when he's accused of a cabaret owner's murder. 

It's lights, camera, murder when Jessica flies to Los Angeles to protest the movie adaption of one of her novels. But when the producer ends up murdered, she unwittingly gets cast in the role of prime suspect. 

Man's best friend gets a bad reputation when a fox hunter dies in a riding accident and the authorities try to blame the heir to his estate, his beloved pooch. 

Jessica searches for clues hidden in rainy Seattle when her personal secretary is accused of murdering his wealthy girlfriend. 

When a car with a mind of its own runs over a weathy businessman, Jessica's very eccentric neighbor is accused of covering the tracks. 

In a case of imitating life, a disagreeable amusement park owner is found murdered after hiring Jessica to design the House of Horror. 

It's the final curtain for a man found murdered backstage during the performance of a popular Soviet ballet troupe. 

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. 

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. 

Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings. 

While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage. 

Jessica's niece is terrorized with reminders of her dead husband on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent suicide. 

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

Jessica meets tough-as-nails Harry McGraw when they must pinpoint the motive for the murder of a private detective. 

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

An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention. 

After boarding a bus to travel to a convention in Boston, Jessica and Amos Tupper are forced to take refuge from a fierce storm at a remote diner where one of the passengers is discovered murdered. 

Over Jessica's protests, she is taken to a hospital after a minor accident in the airport. 

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

Jessica has to unravel the secrets and threats at the funeral of a friend in Wyoming. 

Jessica's trip to a Caribbean resort is filled with sun, sand and a murder investigation. 

Plans for a new hotel in Cabot Cove must be put on hold when a skeleton is discovered at the construction site. Amos and Jessica visit the site to look for clues but instead find a second body. 

Jessica's niece worries about her job security when her character she plays turns out to be the serial killer. Before long she herself needs to worry when her boss ends up dead and she looks like the prime suspect. 

Following her acceptance of an honorary degree from a university, Jessica takes a refresher course in the ABCs of detective work and helps Cabot Cove's police chief on his first murder case. 

Jessica is devastated to be informed of her cousin Emma's untimely passing, but when she arrives in London she learns that Emma isn't dead after all, but has been in hiding after threats on her life. Jessica goes along with the ruse in the hopes of flushing out the would-be killer. 

Jessica visits an old friend who claims to be haunted by the ghost of her late husband. But when the woman's second spouse is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect, Jessica is determined to help clear her name. 

Jessica spends a little time at a lakeside inn where she witnesses what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling into the lake. Everyone is convinced that the husband did it, but Jessica isn't quite so sure. 

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

Jessica agrees to teach an English class at a women's prison for her friend Margaret and soon finds herself being held hostage after Dr. Matthews is murdered and the prisoners are convinced that the warden is responsible. 

Cabot Cove is flooded with poison pen letters which proves hard for the town to handle as Amos prepares to hand the reins over to a new sheriff, Harry Pierce. 

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

One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation and finds herself at the heart of a family feud while taking a look into the company that Grady is working for now. 

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. The jury alternates between wanting to convict him and wanting to set him free, but Jessica realises there's more than just one murder going on here. 

Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, but after a number of the guests fall ill eating strawberry preserves, one of the women dies. Jessica investigates the murder while everyone in town tries to point the finger at someone else. 

The justice system is tested when a group of angry Southerners form a lynch party and plan to hang a murder suspect. 

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist and soon finds herself in the middle of a feud between different members of the evangelist's family. 

Jessica finds herself in a tough spot when one of the auctioneers of a diary is found murdered and she has to rely on Harry McGraw to help her out. 

What begins as a routine murder investigation leads the police to discover that a coffin contains the wrong body. 

The writing's on the wall when a reputable magazine is acquired by a mercenary publisher who quickly changes it into a gossip rag. 

Jessica struggles to protect her former student Carol, a tennis star, when her boyfriend is blown up in her car and Carol is the only suspect. 

Jessica travels to New Orleans, but the good times can't roll when ner cousin suspected of murder. 

The picure's not pretty when an heiress is killed and her art-thief husband is the suspect. 

When Jessica's niece receives a silver leprechaun from someone who has been presumed dead for years, Jessica decides to hunt down the mysterious gift giver from beyond the grave. Her search leads her to a circus, where unnatural things are happening in and out of the ring. 

One murder leads to another as Jessica finds herself chasing down false alibis and the employees of a rival circus. Just when she thinks she has all the funny business behind her, a stunning confession will throw everyone for a loop. 

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved, in which Seth was a strong suspect, and returns to the lakeside cabins where the murder occurred, gathering all the old suspects together. It isn't long before there's another murder. 

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

Jessica gets involved when her niece, Victoria, is believed to be connected to the murder of her lecherous boss, who had been trying to barter more than just Victoria's advertising skills to a new client. 

A group of young treasure hunters come to Cabot Cove looking for sunken treasure but after one dies and the other is arrested for her murder, Jessica gets involved both to clear a young man she believes is innocent and to help an old friend she knows tends not to be. 

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. Jessica gets involved after the man ends up dead, but there seems to be more than enough people with motives. 

Crossover episode with Magnum, P.I.
Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target and continues in his corner when another murder occurs. 

Crossover episode with Magnum, P.I.
Jessica comes to the assistance of Magnum when he's framed for two murders that occur during her vacation in Hawaii. 

Cabot Cove becomes a media magnet when a TV news reporter is presumed dead on a chartered boat. But Jessica finds there's even more action off-camera, when the murder turns out to be a publicity ploy by the reporter in order to avoid one of his former sources. 

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors, who have a secret of their own to hide. 

Jessica is in the wrong place at the right time to help her friend Dorian Beecher when he is accused of a murder he didn't commit after Nate Findley, his primary rival for Sarah Dupont's affections, is found dead. 

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London with a plethora of suspects ranging from an older couple to a well-known actress to a former police officer. 

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

Bookend episode.
Jessica tells the story of her new novel about a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music. 

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed and suspicion lands on one of the clients whose products he maligned. 

Jessica visits her old friend Harry McGraw in New York who has become wrangled in the high stakes game of boxing. 

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing, Jessica investigates. 

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

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

The reform mayor dies in a so called "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of it. 

Jessica investigates the posibility that Sam, a recent parolee, went to jail for a crime he diddn't commit. 

A temporary black-out at a recording studio leaves Jessica in the dark when the weathy soon-to-be-owner is stabbed to death. When the murder weapon matches the cutlery set of an old friend, Jessica takes on the case with a plan to put the real culprit on the record. 

In Paris, a fashion designer with financial trouble is accused of killing a shady loan shark. 

A parolee released after 20 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit, vows to find out who did. 

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

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

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

Jessica's cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring. 

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

Jessica makes an appointment with TV producer Sid Sharkey when she learns he is trying to appropriate her latest novel for his TV show, but when Sid turns up dead, Jessica is one of the prime suspects. 

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. 

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

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

When Amos' sister and her in-laws descend upon Cabot Cove, Jessica hosts a dinner party with homicidal results, leaving the finger pointing at the Sheriff's sister. 

While in Washington, Jessica visits her niece Carrie whose husband is an astronomer dedicating to discovering a comet. When a defense contractor is found murdered and the telescope pointed at the scene of the crime, Jessica must prove her nephew-in-law is innocent. 

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

Jessica is summoned to help a friend with his play and receives an offer of marriage she didn't expect. Even more surprised are the man's plotting family. 

While in Connecticut for a convention, Jessica hears the dying confession of a hit man and uncovers a mysterious safe house housing an important foreign dignitary. 

The Gambini Winery is being extorted by organized crime and it's up to Jessica to uncover who is behind the murder of a mafia hit man. 

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. 

Jessica is delighted to return to New York City with the announcement of her nephew's impending engagement. But when a restaurant employee is found dead, the engagement is threatened. 

Jessica's niece is smitten with a rodeo rider and refuses to believe he could have committed a murder. 

When one of Jessica's former students brings a play based on one of her novels to Broadway, she finds herself in the middle of a war of words between rival critics 

Jessica comes to the aid of yet another dear old friend running as a senatorial candidate. When the candidate's campaign manager is murdered, Jessica must help prove her innocence. 

A chance encounter with her old British intelligence friend Michael Hagarty leaves Jessica standing over a dead Bulgarian diplomat and accused of murder. Incarcerated, she has to leave it up to Grady and Michael to prove her innocence. 

After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to New York where she is simultaneously wooed by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief. 

Jessica is perplexed by the apparent murder of an elderly man points to two simple-minded, spinster sisters he was living with. 

A massive storm results in Jessica snowed in at a ski lodge with an Olympic men's ski team and a murderer on the loose. 

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, Jessica looks under the surface of a corrupt mining company that claims no responsibility for the death of two perceptive employees. 

In New York City researching her next book, Jessica is drawn into a mystery involving a priceless tiara, a reclusive former actress and a news reporter accused of murder. 

Jessica is summoned to California where a recently recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank. 

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

Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate. 

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

Jessica aids yet another dear old friend in his search for his missing grandson. 

While in New York, a missing shoe on the discovered dead body of a homeless person leads Jessica to believe the supposed accidental death was not an accident. 

Jessica is suspicious when the appearance of the ghost of a long-dead witch burned at the stake coincides with the release of a book on the very subject. 

Jessica is detained in Moscow when a spy attempts to smuggle film out of the Soviet Union in her handbag. 

An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but Jessica believes he didn't really commit. 

Jessica is detoured on her way to Los Angeles at a seedy truck stop where a series of murders makes it apparent she isn't there by accident. 

A vindictive, tell-all work of fiction mirroring Cabot Cove sends the townspeople into an uproar, and when a murder occurs following the plot of the book it's up to Jessica to separate fact from fiction. 

Jessica heads to Montana to aid a young friend editing the last manuscript of the late writer Trevor Hudson, but when murder results she must weed through the lies of Hudson's scheming family to uncover the truth. 

Jessica encounters a man in Boston whom she is convinced is her neighbor from years back, but when the man denies it, and his wife claims the man is dead, Jessica recruits Harry McGraw to dig to the bottom of the mystery. 

Jessica visits her nephew Johnny, recently recruited onto a Major League Baseball team, and then must solve the murder of a scheming news reporter. 

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. 

Jessica fears the worst when Seth is poisoned, meanwhile Cabot Cove is abuzz when Eudora McVeigh is determined to fill Jessica's role in solving a local murder. 

Jessica is detoured from a scheduled book tour after encountering MI6 agent Michael Haggerty and he convinces her to pose as his wife in Greece. 

Cabot Cove's young, new priest finds himself in a sticky situation when a murderer confesses their crime and he recruits Jessica to help him uncover the truth without violating his oath of silence. 

Bookend episode.
Jessica narrates a story from 40 years ago when another female mystery writer helped to solve a mysterious murder aboard the Queen Mary. 

What starts out to be a simple trip to sunny California turns much darker when a real estate developer is murdered. 

Bookend episode.
It's a whole new game for an ex-football star when he becomes a private investigator, unwillingly takes on a French poodle for a partner and attempts to stop the assassinetion of a Latin American president. 

Where there's smoke there's fire, and possibly murder, when a furniture store is torched by an arsonist, and the deceased firefighter inside is found to have died from a blow to the head rather than the blaze. 

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 when Jessica visits an old friend. 

There's more drama backstage than onstage, on opening night of the opera, where a world-renowned tenor is accused of murder but claims it was self-defence. 

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

Bookend episode.
Jake Ballinger, a Los Angeles homicide detective and friend of Jessica's, finds himself immersed in a case that may cost him his career. 

Cabot Cove 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. 

Bookend episode.
Three sets of people try to claim the body found on a railroad track. 

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

When Jessica's stockbroker is murdered, she finds a wealth of suspects in his ruthless world of high finance. 

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

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

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

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

Bookend episode.
Dennis Stanton, a former jewel thief turned insurance investigator, finds himself involved in a high-society murder. 

When a murder is committed shortly after the release of a mentally handicapped man, Jessica helps the man's sister prove his innocence. 

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

Bookend episode.
Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia. 

While in New York, Jessica is forced to defend herself after Edward Stone dies during a jail escape. His daughter is suing Jessica for $50 million, and the prime witness in the case years ago has changed his story. 

Jessica finds herself embroiled in a Cabot Cove murder case when the husband of her temporary typist is murdered and a young reporter agrees to help the grieving widow cover up the crime. 

Bookend episode.
In San Francisco, Dennis Stanton investigates the murder of Truman Calloway, a man with no shortage of enemies, when the ex-husband of one of Calloway's clients is charged with the murder. 

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 looks into the matter when she makes a new friend in Westchester county, who just happens to have a penchant for jewelry theft, that ends up being arrested for the murder of her chauffeur. 

Eve Simpson is at a loss to explain how the body of Fred Keppard ended up in her bedroom. When Wayne Bennett, owner of Cabot Cove's newest, hottest gym, is suspected of the crime, Jessica agrees to look into the matter after receiving a request from a surprising source. 

Preston Giles, Jessica's former publisher and the first murderer she ever caught, has been released from jail after serving only six years of his sentence. When an old rival is murdered shortly after Giles returns to work, Jessica has to determine if Giles is being framed or if he has committed his third murder. 

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

Jessica heads to Nashville to visit her old friends, Bobby and Patti Sue Diamond, and finds herself embroiled in the middle of a murder mystery when Bobby and Patti Sue are both poisoned. 

Bookend episode.
Dennis Stanton investigates a fire that burned the hands of famous concert pianist Vaclav Maryska. When Maryska's wife winds up murdered, Dennis trys to sort through the suspects and find the killer. 

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

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

Things get messy in Cabot Cove when Bradley Hellman, the son of an influential ambassador, is murdered only an hour after making bail for drunken driving. Jessica is determined to protect Mort, who has been accused of Hellman's murder by his father. 

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

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. 

Jessica teams up with Harry McGraw when an argument over stud fees results in someone ending up dead. 

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

Bookend episode.
Dennis Stanton is on the case when a "kidnapped" ventriloquist's dummy is found in a locked room along with the corpse of a comedy club owner. The ventriloquist is the prime suspect, and Dennis sets out to solve the crime. 

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. Jessica turns to her old friend, Clint Phelps, for help, but he doesn't have any answers he can give her. After the woman and her son end up mixed up in a murder investigation, Jessica agrees to solve the case, but does so with a heavy heart. 

When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder. 

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

The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose. 

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. 

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. 

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 TV was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house. 

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. 

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

Jessica travels to Hollywood to discuss the film version of her latest novel and discovers the producer dead on the set. 

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered. 

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

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. 

While in Milan attending the premiere of a film adapted from one of her books, Jessica searches for the killer when the producer is murdered. 

One of Jessica's former students is murdered when he returns to Cabot Cove to write a book exposing new information on a 30 year-old town scandal. 

The police refuse to believe Jessica when she is mistaken for a government informant and kidnapped by the town's most respected citizen. 

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

Jessica is threatened with lawsuits after she is depicted in a newspaper comic strip accusing some of Manhattan's leading citizens of crimes. 

Jessica helps the sheriff of an old Western town solve a murder that is connected to a legendary stagecoach robber's long-lost treasure. 

Michael Haggerty's soon-to-be son-in-law is involved in a merger with a Hong Kong financial institution operated by drug lords and arms smugglers. When Michael is found standing over the dead body of his soon-to-be son-in-law, he is accused of the murder. Jessica knows better and helps Michael prove that he is innocent. 

Jessica investigates the mysterious disappearance of her editor's millionaire father along with $150 million from his corporate account. 

Jessica uncovers embezzlement and blackmail after a Cabot Cove newcomer is suspected of shooting a woman at the local Christmas celebration. 

Jessica records one of her novels for the blind. While at the recording studio she gets an invitation to the taping of a rock video. A murder takes place during the taping and Jessica sets off to seek out clues to the mystery. 

The community center of Cabot Cove is getting ready to produce an pre-off Broadway play with retired actor, David North at the helm. What follows is interupted rehearsals and a murder in town. The search is then on for clues to the murder. 

Jessica agrees to teach a mystery writing class at a Catholic church in an ethically mixed neighborhood. In the confessional, poison spray is used to murder its occupant. Jessica realizes she had discussed poisons in her class and had mentioned a book called "The Toxic Handbook". Jessica goes in search of the facts. 

Murder, missing persons, and the Kennedy assasination are all part of the mysteries Jessica must face to solve her current case. 

While on a book tour, Jessica agrees to guest on a local radio talk show that has fueding co-owners. Jessica gets the last word in when she is interviewed by a "Howard Stern" type interviewer. When a murder takes place Jessica helps sort out the tangled webs of confusion to bring the killer to justice. 

While observing the guests at a dinner party held by a Beverly Hills gossip magazine editor, Jessica envisions the plot for her next murder mystery. 

Jessica helps a neighbor in her New York building who has a phobia about leaving her apartment since she saw her mother murdered five years ago. 

Two murders result when the CEO of Cabot Cove defense corporation tries to save his company by illegally selling leftover components. 

Jessica agrees to help clear a former research assistant of killing her new employer, despite the fact that the woman is a pathological liar. 

Jessica helps solve the murder of a Cabot Cove neighbor when the only witness, a local delivery boy she has befriended, becomes the prime suspect. 

While on a cruise, Jessica helps an old friend, now a ship's security chief, investigate when a woman is found dead in the cargo area. 

Jessica becomes involved in an internal police investigation when a colleague is left for dead in an accident in which a rookie policeman is killed. 

Jessica investigates the murder of a visiting romance novelist's assistant, who was having an affair with the writer's publisher husband. 

Jessica's trip to Hong Kong is interrupted by the murder of an American businessman negotiating a merger with a Chinese tycoon. 

When Jessica aggrees to help preserve a historic brownstone, she winds up trying to clear her editor of the murder of an opposing developer. 

A stranger obsessed with restoring a Cabot Cove landmark is killed after he is suspected of being a vampire. 

Jessica comes to the aid of a promising young reporter when he is suspected of murdering a rival magazine's unscrupulous publisher. 

Jessica happens on a computerized clue to a murder while writing a mystery story for a friend's interactive video game compant. 

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. 

While visiting Ireland, Jessica searches for clues when a widowed friend's son is suspected of killing an American relative. 

Jessica returns to Cabot Cove to discover why her accountant is not paying her bills. 

One of Jessica's best-selling mysteries makes her the target of a lawsuit by a man who was tried and acquited for murder. 

When Jessica is called to London to rewrite the stage adaptation of her novel, she must prove her actress friend innocent of killing a producer. 

While stranded in a small Canadian town, Jessica helps the Mounties solve two local murders. 

Jessica discovers clues to a puzzling murder when she is a guest star on a friend's television cooking show. 

Jessica comes to the rescue when a friend's sculpture is used as a murder weapon. 

Jessica attempts to clear the name of a Cabot Cove fisherman who is suspected of murdering a Chicago hit man. 

Jessica refuses to believe that the editor of her latest book has committed suicide and is determined to find out the truth. 

Infrared cameras seem to prove Jessica's writing student is guilty of killing his abusive stepfather. 

Financial problems lead to a double murder at a department store, forcing Jessica to prove the innocence of a friend. 

Jessica searches for Seth Hazlitt when he suddenly disappears and fresh bloodstains in his office indicate foul play. 

In Texas, Jessica attempts to help the owner of a small trucking company clear his son of a murder charge. 

Jessica searches for a motive when a legendary maestro, who is about to lose control of his protege, is found murdered. 

The arrival of a traveling carnival in Cabot Cove coincides with a rash of burglaries and the murder of the troupe's owner. 

While researching her newest novel at a California zoo, Jessica finds herself in the middle of a murder involving a black mamba snake. 

Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder. 

Jessica accidentally discovers a letter from George Washington that leads to a hero's disgrace and a director's murder. 

Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host, power broker Matt Kinkaid, vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election. 

When a newspaper columnist becomes the target of a crazed gunman, Jessica's advice to be careful is ignored. 

In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV. Jessica slowly realizes that the "TV show" is actually the feed from a surveillance camera, and she may be witnessing the planning of a robbery and murder. 

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

The mysterious deaths of a winery matriarch's son and a rival vintner lead Jessica into a world of greed and betrayal. 

Jessica searches for a link between the town bully's death and the death of the woman he was having an affair with. 

The taping of an infomercial by Jessica and two fellow novelists is plagued by problems including the mysterious death of an audience member. 

Jessica helps a Russian police officer capture the elusive mastermind behind the theft of a Faberge egg. 

The pervasive stench of death looms over Jessica and Seth's visit to his cousin's South Carolina plantation. 

Jessica takes a trip to Egypt to finalize a cultural exchange program and ends up searching for a killer and a stolen artifact. 

An opera singer tries to make her debut before a stalker can fulfill his promise to kill her. 

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

Homicide haunts the release of a restored movie, and Jessica investigates the current crime and the 1960 murder that prevented the original release. 

Jessica's excursion into the world of the fashion elite in Paris leads to murder, seamy sweatshops and smugglers. 

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

It seems that there is more than schoolboy pranks going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival. 

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. 

A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems. 

Jessica uses her head to weave through the makeup and hairspray concealing the murderer of a financier at a beauty salon. 

Jessica is fired up to find the true murderer of her friend's husband, but private detective Charlie Garrett is unwittingly putting out the flames. 

While visiting a friend in Arizona, a green sheriff asks Jessica for her help investigating a murder that followed the discovery of a stash of cash. 

A research trip to New Orleans plunges Jessica into the world of the occult, when a businessman dies, and a voodoo doll is evidence. 

Jessica immerses herself in the medical profession when a young nurse is accused of murdering two patients to whom she was providing home care. 

Jessica is in Ireland visiting an old friend and staying at a bed and breakfast at Ballynook Castle. A haunted spirit and antique smugglers are just a few challenges Jessica faces on her Irish vacation. 

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. 

Jessica travels to Rome to help rewrite the script for the filming of one of her books, but the filming takes a tragic turn when a stuntman dies. 

Charlie Garrett's outrageous bid at an auction arouses Jessica's suspicions, after the artist becomes the subject of a homicide photographer. 

When Jessica arrives at an ice cream company to get a check for charity, the funds have melted and the company's co-founder is iced. 

After being subpoenaed to testify at the jury probe of a brokerage house, Jessica is charged with contempt for speaking to a witness who is killed. 

Jessica's delivery to a motorcycle racer in Japan speeds up a series of events that result in the death of another racer. 

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. 

Seth Hazlitt's benefit concert to save the woods near Cabot Cove is endangered when the lead singer is permanently silenced. 

When the police are reluctant to become involved, Jessica links a recent murder, a possible suicide and an 11-year-old kidnapping. 

When the producer of a hit twenty-something TV series is murdered, Jessica does some directing of her own. 

After Jessica's short story for children becomes a television puppet show, she must find the fiend who used one of the puppets as a murder weapon. 

A vacation in the Grand Tetons turns into work when the man threatening Jessica's host with blackmail is murdered. 

Jessica has to solve two murders to clear the name of her old friend Deputy Andy, who becomes a suspect when a murder weapon is found in his car. 

Jessica travels to Australia to prove that she is the rightful heir to 130,000 acres of grazing land, but her arrival results in two murders. 

Jessica investigates when a wealthy yachtsman is murdered two days before a big race, and the daughter of his rival is charged with the crime. 

When a young man dies in a motorcycle crash, and a local attorney is murdered, Jessica looks for links between the two seemingly unrelated deaths. 

Jessica gets caught up in a web of international intrigue and rogue government agents when a deadly virus is stolen from the Biological Research Institute. 

In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is murdered after changing their image by firing every staff member who is past a certain age and changing the format from classical music to hard rock. 

Jessica is warned away by an FBI agent while following clues to Agua Verde where a woman who left her purse apparently lives. 

Jessica Fletcher puts her sleuthing skills to work at a writer's conference after a Russian author is found dead. 

Jessica Fletcher uncovers a shocking link between her family history and the death of a slave in the 1860s. 

Jessica travels to Ireland, where she attends the reading of an old acquaintance's will. The will contains the clues to finding a secret treasure, one that will require an already strained family to work together in order to solve the mystery.