
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.
Stranded at a roadside diner by a storm, bus passengers Jessica and Sheriff Tupper investigate the murder of a fellow traveler.
A parishioner confesses murder to a pastor, who cannot divulge the truth when an innocent man is accused.
The death of a venerable female mystery writer takes Jessica back to a 1947 murder aboard the Queen Mary.
Jessica can't make sense of clues surrounding a real-estate developer's murder and his wife's suicide.