Murder, She Wrote

Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.

A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

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.

A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.

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 voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

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

A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.

The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.

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.

Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.

Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.

Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.

The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.

An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.

Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.

Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.