An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

When a 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert benefit in Cabot Cove.

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

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

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

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.

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

The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.

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

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

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

Jessica 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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