After a terrible storm, Stephen Earl's four daughters tell Sheriff Tupper that their father died while they were out on the boat. Jessica is only midly intrigued; she finds Ralph, the older gentleman who has offered to work for food, much more intriguing, especially since it is obvious he comes from money. The womens' stories about what happened on the boat change constantly, but once Ralph is found dead and later found to be Stephen Earl, Jessica has to help Amos wage through the inconsistencies in the four Earl daughters storylines to determine who killed their father and why.

While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

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.

Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?

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

Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.

Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.

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

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.

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

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

The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.

The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

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.

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.

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

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.

A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.

Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.

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