Murder, She Wrote

- Season 5

(1988)

A chance encounter with her old friend Michael Hagarty leaves Jessica standing over a dead Bulgarian diplomat and accused of murder.

After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to NYC where she is simultaneously wooed by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief.

Jessica is perplexed by the death of an elderly man as suspicion points to the two simple-minded spinster sisters he was living with.

A massive storm results in Jessica snowed in at a ski lodge with an Olympic men's ski team and a murderer on the loose.

When a former student is arrested for murder, Jessica heads to West Virginia to bail her out. The unfriendly town hinders her investigation.

In New York City researching her next book, Jessica is drawn into a mystery involving a priceless tiara, a reclusive former actress and a news reporter accused of murder.

Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.

Lee Goddard successfully coaxes Jessica to join him at his ranch in Arizona but intrigue and murder follow them there when a mysterious psychic joins them.

Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.

The murder of a womanizing gambler leads to double lives being exposed in seemingly quaint and old-fashioned Cabot Cove.

Jessica aids yet another dear old friend in his search for his missing grandson.

While in New York, the dead body of a homeless person missing a shoe is discovered and leads Jessica to believe the supposed accidental death was not an accident.

Jessica is suspicious when the appearance of the ghost of a long-dead witch burned at the stake coincides with the release of a book on the very subject.

Jessica is detained in Moscow when a spy attempts to smuggle a film out of the Soviet Union in her handbag.

Jessica is summoned to her old alma mater when one of her college professors confesses to a murder Jessica believes he didn't really commit.

En route to LA, Jessica is detoured at a seedy truck stop where a series of murders makes it clear she isn't there by accident.

A vindictive, tell-all work of fiction mirroring Cabot Cove sends the townspeople into an uproar and when a murder occurs, following the plot of the book, it's up to Jessica to separate fact from fiction.

Jessica heads to Montana to aid a young friend editing the last manuscript of the late writer, Trevor Hudson, but when murder results, she must weed through the lies of Hudson's scheming family to uncover the truth.

Jessica encounters a man who she believes is her neighbor from years back, but when the man denies it, Jessica recruits Harry McGraw to dig to the bottom of the mystery.

Jessica visits her nephew Johnny, recently recruited onto a Major League Baseball team, and then must solve the murder of a scheming news reporter.

A rival mystery writer arrives at Jessica's door with not-so-friendly intentions.

Cabot Cove is abuzz when Eudora McVeigh is determined to fill Jessica's role in solving a local murder.