
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.

Sheriff Metzger assumes his younger brother, the black sheep of the family, is guilty of murder, as charged.

New computer owner Jessica discovers hackers gathering information for blackmail, a crime that leads to murder.

Jessica's editor is accused of murdering a developer opposed to the preservation of a historic New York brownstone.

Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.