Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a costume party at her publisher's (Arthur Hill) home, where ``Sherlock Holmes'' (Brian Keith) is murdered and Grady (Michael Horton) is arrested for the crime.
With her first hit mystery, Maine widow Jessica Fletcher makes a promotional trip to New York, and becomes involved in a murder at a publisher's costume bash.
Four daughters (Marilyn Hassett, Cassie Yates, Anne Lockhart, Doran Clark) claim their multimillionaire father (Howard Duff) was swept overboard from his yacht during a hurricane.
A family wedding brings Jessica Fletcher to San Francisco where the groom-to-be must first be cleared of a murder charge.
Jessica Fletcher arrives in Hollywood to protest the filming of her novel and preventing it from becoming a trashy movie only to find herself heading the list of murder suspects.
Jessica is visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South. When he gets killed during a hunt and under the strangest circumstances, Jessica tires to find out what really happened.
Angela Lansbury
Actor
Vincent McEveety
Director
Anthony Shaw
Walter Grauman
Seymour Robbie
