
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 seeks a link between the electrocution of the town bully and the hanging of a teacher who was his lover.

While working on an infomercial, Jessica helps a detective friend (George DiCenzo) probe a strangulation, and tries to find out why a member of her studio audience (Gale Hansen) is found dead during the taping.

Jessica helps a Russian police officer (David Ogden Stiers) capture the elusive mastermind behind the theft of a Fabergé egg.

Accidentally tapped into a closed-circuit video surveillance system, Jessica's neighbor witnesses scheming, a robbery and then a murder.