Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.

Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of Joshua Peabody. Not everyone is thus inclined though, and many people believe it's just a random dead body. But when Jessica and Amos head back to the dig site, they find there's another body there! Jessica not only has to find out who killed Wheatley, she has to help an old friend when his past comes back to haunt him.

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

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

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

A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected

This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.

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

There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

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.

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

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

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

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

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

Private investigator Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique vacationing at the same time he is accused of murdering the woman he's been trying to locate for a client.

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.

In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband, Grant Boswell.

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.

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