Jessica heads to San Francisco for the wedding of her niece, Victoria Brandon, only to learn that Victoria is having second thoughts because she suspects that her fiancé, Howard, is having an affair. Although Jessica and Victoria are relieved to learn that Howard isn't cheating but rather dressing up as a woman to perform at a nightclub, the relief is short lived when Howard is arrested for murdering his boss, Al Drake, who had been refusing to pay him. The police are convinced that Drake was shot during Freddy York's act, which doesn't leave a lot of time, but Jessica is determined to prove Howard's innocence.

Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.

The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.

When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.

Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.

After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner to be found dead, and young Matt Burns, the son of a former student of Ames', ends up accused of the murder. At the behest of Linda Bonner, the victim's sister who happens to care deeply about the accused, Jessica takes a look into the murder, but hatred runs deep in this town and it's pure luck (and Andy Crane) that leads Jessica and Ames to the right answer.

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.

The special effects used by a TV producer are a real bomb.

Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.

Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.

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.

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

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

A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.