A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.

The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites the press.

A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?

An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?

In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.

When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.

An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a furniture store. Are these events connected?

A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.

A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.

A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.

Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.

A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.

A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.

Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.

When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.

Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.

During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.

Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.

The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?

Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.

Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

One of the partners trying to raze a Brownstone where Hemmingway once wrote is erased--permanently.

A media tycoon may have been killed by a literary agent who seems as substantial as smoke.

An American nephew, out to get the family business, gets a different kind and the Irish widow's son is suspected.

There are three suspects in the murder of a crooked deputy: a CPA, an illegal casino owner and his daughter's jilted lover.

In Canada, a land war breaks out between Native Americans and a mining company.

A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.

A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.

Seth vanishes and every one is sure there was foul play.

The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.

When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.

The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.

While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.

Jessica investigates two brutal murders at a struggling winery in Sonoma Valley.

A Cabot Cove resident is killed in Jessica's garage.

Jessica helps Seth solve family problems when his rich southern cousin is murdered.

Jessica finds herself crime-solving in a highly intense world of opera while in Genoa, Italy.

Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.

The townspeople are concerned about a massive development on their shore and it is further complicated for Jessica since the firm employs her nephew, Grady.

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.

Gossip is rampant in a stylish Fifth Avenue beauty salon where an expert hair-dresser is involved in several intrigues.

People in a sleepy Arizona town, are threatened by a truck- stop bandit and suspicious treasure hunters.

A nurse under a cloud comes to Cabot Cove. One of her patients is Jessica's best friend Maggie.

A spooky story set in an old Irish castle where legend has it that there is a ghost and a hidden treasure.

Jessica is trapped in the rat-infested dungeon of an ancient Irish castle, but uses her ingenuity to get rescued and find the treasure and a murderer.

Jessica agrees to go to New York to bid on a manuscript purportedly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and while there, she gets mixed up in the murder of a local forger who had been involved in the theft of a priceless Degas painting two years earlier when she tries to help Charlie Garrett out of a jam.

Jessica is called to testify before a grand jury after a victim's last phone call was traced to her number.

The members of an up-and-coming Latin instrumental band get an offer they can't refuse just when they are getting noticed by a more reputable company.

The victim of a childhood kidnapping sees more in the manuscript she is editing than coincidence would suggest.

The puppets are dancing to a different tune, much to the dismay of the young designer.

Deputy Andy bought a house with numerous defects from the victim and emerges as the chief suspect.

Jessica somehow gets tangled in a situation involving a deadly virus and an arms deal.

In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is trying to change their image by firing every staff member who is past a certain age and playing music for teen-agers only.