
Mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher - a down-to-earth, middle-aged widow - ferrets out the criminals in idyllic Cabot Cove, Maine, which apparently is the murder capital of the United States for the show's 12-season run. Though while traveling, she uncovers a fair number of killers as well.
Jessica visits Ireland soon after an American tourist's corpse lands in a wishing well near Tom Dempsey's (Rod Taylor) fishing lodge.
Jessica finds no mourners, but plenty of suspects after a young tennis pro's domineering father is killed.
Searching for a stolen tiara, Jessica meets the reclusive actress (Jean Peters) for whom it was designed.
The airplane Jessica's late husband bailed out of in 1952 is finally found, but it with a body inside.