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

Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

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.

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

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.

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.

The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.

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

Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

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

The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.

A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.

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

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

It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.

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

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

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.

It seems that there is more than schoolboy pranks going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.

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

A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert benefit in Cabot Cove.

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

Jessica is the honorary commodore of the World's Cup Race, featuring Kyle Kimball's Buccaneer and Ned Larkin's Free Spirit. There is much ill-will and Ned is injured, too much to skipper his craft. His daughter replaces him and then Kyle is killed. This is no way to run a regatta!

Seth's niece returns to Cabot Cove for her wedding only to have her groom die ""accidentally"" before the event.