
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.
When the producer of a hit twenty-something series is murdered, Jessica does some directing of her own.
After Jessica's story for children becomes a television puppet show; she must find the fiend who used one of the puppets as a murder weapon.
A vacation in the Grand Tetons turns into work when the man threatening Jessica's host with blackmail is murdered.
Jessica has to solve two murders to clear the name of her old friend Deputy Andy Broom (Louis Herthum), who becomes a suspect when a murder weapon is found in his car.