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

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

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.

Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.

After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.

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

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

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.

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

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