《女作家与谋杀案》是一部非常著名且持续时间很久的美国经典侦探剧集。这部剧集共12季264集，从1984年开始在美国CBS电视台一直播放至1996年，之后又于1997年至2003年间陆续推出四部电视电影。Angela Lansbury扮演主角推理小说家兼业余侦探Jessica Flectcher，她在50岁左右失去了丈夫， 却成为了一名非常成功的推理小说作家，并且没有让成功冲昏头脑，拒绝了声望和金钱的诱惑，住在缅因州一个叫Cabot Cove的安逸的沿海小镇，和自己的老朋友们保持来往。在大部分剧集里，Jessica总能卷入一些离奇谋杀案的调查。警察们总是把表面上看来嫌疑很大的人抓走，而Jessica却觉得凶手另有其人。通过向每个嫌疑人询问一些其他人都想不到的问题，她总能找到真正的凶手，并在每集最后五分钟与之对峙，通过自己的推理指出对方的罪行。一部分凶手能够在Jessica的劝解下主动坦白罪行并向警方自首，也有一部分凶手会试图杀人灭口，而这时埋伏在暗处的警方人员便会及时赶到，将凶手当场逮捕。
播出日期: 1994-09-25
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.
播出日期: 1994-10-02
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While on a visit to Amsterdam, Jessica meets up with fellow novelist and old friend Nigel Allison. When Allison goes missing, Colin Biddle, who claims to be Allison's publishing liaison, try to convince her that nothing is wrong. Jessica soon realises that both Nigel and Colin are secret agents, and despite Colin's request for her to stay out of it, Jessica investigates Allison's disappearance and soon convinces a previously reluctant inspector that there is something terribly wrong. At the same time, Philip and Lydia de Kooning are trying to make a deal in diamonds, and when Philip turns up dead after Jessica gets a note supposedly from him, Jessica is the prime suspect in his murder.
编剧: David Bennett Carren
播出日期: 1994-10-09
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.
编剧: Laurence Heath
播出日期: 1994-10-16
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Poor Jessica can't take a vacation without finding mystery or murder. In this case, it is an election campaign gone bad.
编剧: Donald Ross
播出日期: 1994-10-23
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.
播出日期: 1994-11-06
运行时间: 45 min
概述: In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1994-11-13
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Private investigator Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique vacationing at the same time he is accused of murdering the woman he's been trying to locate for a client.
编剧: Bruce Lansbury
播出日期: 1994-11-20
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica investigates two brutal murders at a struggling winery in Sonoma Valley.
播出日期: 1994-11-27
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A Cabot Cove resident is killed in Jessica's garage.
编剧: Donald Ross
播出日期: 1994-12-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.
编剧: Mary Ann Kasica
播出日期: 1994-12-11
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A book fair in Miami becomes Jessica's backdrop when she teams with a Russian detective to solve an art theft and murder.
编剧: Laurence Heath
播出日期: 1995-01-08
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica helps Seth solve family problems when his rich southern cousin is murdered.
播出日期: 1995-01-22
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A dear friend's involvement with the theft of a priceless Egyptian relic and a murder birng Jessica to the rescue.
播出日期: 1995-02-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica finds herself crime-solving in a highly intense world of opera while in Genoa, Italy.
播出日期: 1995-02-12
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then murdered, Jessica sets the record strait when the wrong man is arrested.
编剧: Donald Ross
播出日期: 1995-02-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.
编剧: Laurence Heath
播出日期: 1995-02-26
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Parisian slave-labor sweatshops provide the setting for the crimes, and the pretentious world of fashion is where Jessica solves them.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1995-03-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: 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.
播出日期: 1995-04-30
运行时间: 45 min
概述: It seems that there is more than schoolboy pranks going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.
播出日期: 1995-05-07
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.
播出日期: 1995-05-14
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems.
