Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut no...

After a terrible storm, Stephen Earl's four daughters tell Sheriff Tupper that their father died whi...

Jessica heads to San Francisco for the wedding of her niece, Victoria Brandon, only to learn that Vi...

Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion pic...

While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-h...

While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as h...

Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one...

Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement pa...

While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young da...

Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked...

Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and...

Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing tha...

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

Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death.....

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

Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for t...

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An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention.

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

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...

A Wyoming rancher leaves all to an ill-fated stranger, to the disgust of his disinherited daughter.

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

Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that...

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

When Jessica is offered an honorary degree from Crenshaw University, she has no idea she's about to...

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

Jessica decides to pay a visit to her long-time friend Francesca, only to learn that Francesca, who...

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

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. Then the horse's owner is murde...

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

When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder ou...

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

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

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man c...

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

After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield fin...

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

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

Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong...

Jessica and Grady head to the home of publisher Christopher Bundy, whose publishing company owns the...

Who was the intended victim when a tennis star is blown up in his girl friend's car?

At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while o...

After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, s...

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica...

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus...

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

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

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

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

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his...

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown targe...

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when...

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously ma...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

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 i...

First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he dem...

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finall...

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio c...

Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself e...

A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case...

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

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.

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 surprising activity.

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

Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigat...

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

Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now...

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

Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming...

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

Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old frie...

Jessica gets herself into a mess of trouble after overhearing the dying words of a professional hitm...

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

Someone wants the old historic house enough to kill for it and its supposed hidden treasure AND Jess...

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

Arson is intended to remove the Rodeo doctor and his patient permanently.

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

The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites...

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

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

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

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

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

A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The o...

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

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

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

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

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only...

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died...

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

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

Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from t...

A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and...

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

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

A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions...

After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still b...

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

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

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

When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the wh...

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

An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a f...

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

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

A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is tryi...

A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. To...

The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young wom...

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a w...

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

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

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

Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woma...

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

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

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns t...

Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to...

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

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

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

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

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

A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16...

A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur mig...

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

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

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

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

Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns hi...

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

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

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scanda...

The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn bla...

An argument over stud fees ends in murder.

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

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

A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep...

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 writte...

Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally...

Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of m...

After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend...

When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his...

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-o...

Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishe...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 un...

There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doe...

The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, w...

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suic...

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 wo...

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

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scand...

Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken fo...

While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their ho...

Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connec...

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

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

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

The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body...

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

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

A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer...

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

The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.

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

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

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

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

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

A racehorse trainer is murdered as he is on his way to expose a racing fraud and there is some frict...

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

There are three suspects in the murder of a crooked deputy: a CPA, an illegal casino owner and his d...

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

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

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

When the chef of a restaurant who recently had over half his stock bought up by a well-known mobster...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A truck hijacker comes to the end of the road.

The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.

It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.

When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case...

While on a visit to Amsterdam, Jessica meets up with fellow novelist and old friend Nigel Allison. W...

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

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

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

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

Private investigator Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique vacationing at the sam...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parisian slave-labor sweatshops provide the setting for the crimes, and the pretentious world of fas...

The townspeople are concerned about a massive development on their shore and it is further complicat...

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

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset b...

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

Gossip is rampant in a stylish Fifth Avenue beauty salon where an expert hair-dresser is involved in...

In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband,...

People in a sleepy Arizona town, are threatened by a truck- stop bandit and suspicious treasure hunt...

Jessica travels to New Orleans to research a new novel, but gets caught up in a series of voodoo kil...

A nurse under a cloud comes to Cabot Cove. One of her patients is Jessica's best friend Maggie.

A spooky story set in an old Irish castle where legend has it that there is a ghost and a hidden tre...

Jessica is trapped in the rat-infested dungeon of an ancient Irish castle, but uses her ingenuity to...

A movie set in Rome is the setting for a more than they planned while filming a J.B. Fletcher novel.

Jessica agrees to go to New York to bid on a manuscript purportedly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and w...

What is the secret ingredient in the ice cream? Jessica means to find out and see that the donation...

Jessica is called to testify before a grand jury after a victim's last phone call was traced to her...

Motorcycle racing in Osaka, Japan, puts a man's life in danger when he tries to wed a girl from a tr...

The members of an up-and-coming Latin instrumental band get an offer they can't refuse just when the...

A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert ben...

The victim of a childhood kidnapping sees more in the manuscript she is editing than coincidence wou...

A TV sitcom, Buds, turns out to be less friendly than the producer hoped.

The puppets are dancing to a different tune, much to the dismay of the young designer.

The scene is a guest lodge in the Grand Tetons. Two of the guests are hiding secrets. Who has the di...

Deputy Andy bought a house with numerous defects from the victim and emerges as the chief suspect.

Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheri...

Jessica is the honorary commodore of the World's Cup Race, featuring Kyle Kimball's Buccaneer and Ne...

Seth's niece returns to Cabot Cove for her wedding only to have her groom die ""accidentally"" befor...

Jessica somehow gets tangled in a situation involving a deadly virus and an arms deal.

In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is trying to change their image by firing every staf...