Murder, She Wrote - Season 3

When Jessica's niece receives a gift from her supposedly dead grandfather, she asks Jessica to find him. The trail leads to a circus with more mayhem behind the scenes than in the arena.

Jessica's long-missing brother-in-law Neil Fletcher, who has been working under an alias with the Carmody Circus, has confessed to the murder of circus manager Hank Sutter. Jessica is convinced that Neil is innocent, and that he is covering up for somebody else.

Retired police lieutenant Barney Kale insists upon reopening a 10-year-old murder case which he had never been able to solve. Heading to the murder scene, a lakeside mountain resort, Kale gathers together all of the likely suspects, including Dr. Seth Hazlitt. When a new murder occurs, it appears obvious that there is an hidden agenda related to the revived investigation, but whose agenda, and why?

While in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved in one of Michael Hagarty's cases when an East German musician who is working as a political spy, looks to defect to the United Kingdom. While Jessica tries to make sense of things, she and Michael try to sort things out when one of the operatives working with the defector ends up murdered. Little do they know it somehow includes Jessica's concert-going escort and some time spent in South Africa by both men in the past.

Jessica's niece Victoria soon discovers that the high-powered world of Advertising can be murder when her boss is found dead inside his office and, thanks to her fingerprints on the object used to kill him, is the prime suspect in his death. As a result, Jessica goes to work with the police detective to prove Victoria's innocence while finding the actual killer.

A group of young treasure hunters come to Cabot Cove looking for sunken treasure but after one dies and the other is arrested for her murder, Jessica gets involved both to clear a young man she believes is innocent and to help an old friend she knows tends not to be.

A veteran reporter who suffered a heart attack says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher. Jessica gets involved after the man ends up dead.

Magnum has been arrested for murder and it's up to super sleuth Jessica Fletcher to prove his innocence and find the real killer before it's too late.

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 is Magnum PI S07E09

Jessica reluctantly agrees to a television interview for an old friend but is surprised when a different reporter arrives to conduct the taping; a boat explosion leads everyone to believe the journalist has been killed.

Two actor friends of Jessica's are due to appear in a revival of the play which launched their careers 30 years earlier, but when one of them finds threatening notes on stage, she stands down in favour of her understudy, who dies of cyanide poisoning. Jessica, as ever, decides to investigate.

Jessica is approached by her old friend Dorian Beecher, a shy poet, who begs her to help him. Dorian wants her to impersonate his mum in order to impress his boss, the father of his true love Sarah. Jessica learns that Dorian has been ridiculed for claiming to have seen a headless horseman on his previous visits to Sarah's house, and when his chief tormentor is found decapitated, Dorian is the prime suspect.

A London-bound plane is the setting for the murder of an heiress's bodyguard and the theft of a valuable necklace.

While bedridden, Jessica overhears a telephone conversation between two men who are plotting a murder.

Jessica tells the tale surrounding her newest novel, a music student who accuses his professor of plagiarism, only to be accused of his murder when he is found dead in his office on campus.

A lying TV consumer advocate is killed and suspicion lands on one of the clients whose products he maligned.

Thanks to her latest run-in with Harry McGraw, Jessica discovers that she now is the manager of a down-on-his-luck prize fighter who is looking to retire following his next fight. And while getting a crash course on her new endeavor, she has her hands full trying to clear Harry in the murder of a shady fight promoter.

Simon Thane is a celebrated artist living in Cabot Cove. For the last several years, Thane has jealously guarded his favorite painting, which he has never allowed to be seen publicly. Jessica becomes involved in the story when Thane is murdered and his prized painting stolen, leading our heroine to conclude that the mysterious work of art may contain a clue as to the killer's identity.

Someone is found dead after the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comedians.

Jessica investigates when her nephew, a junior executive for a large accounting firm, is charged with tax fraud and the murder of his boss.

Jessica investigates when an old friend is killed in a car accident in Idaho -- the man's widow believes it was an accident, but the victim's father is sure it was murder.

Jessica looks into a 30-year-old murder in a continuation of the story from the 1949 film "Strange Bargain."

While Jessica is recording some of her mystery stories for the blind, the sound studio's new owner is killed and the record producer quickly arrested. The police reveal that the producer's own blindness was due to a car crash caused by the dead man, but Jessica is convinced other forces are at work, and fights to prove her friend's innocence.