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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

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.

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