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

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

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.

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.

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

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

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An argument over stud fees ends in murder.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

While 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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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