《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。
女作家与谋杀案 (季节 3)
Death Stalks the Big Top (1) 7.7
播出日期: 1986-09-28
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Death Stalks the Big Top (2) 7.5
播出日期: 1986-10-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Unfinished Business 7.5
播出日期: 1986-10-12
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
One White Rose for Death 7.3
播出日期: 1986-10-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
Corned Beef And Carnage 7.0
播出日期: 1986-11-02
运行时间: 45 min
概述: An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
Dead Man's Gold 7.0
播出日期: 1986-11-09
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
Deadline for Murder 7.5
播出日期: 1986-11-16
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.
Magnum on Ice (II) 7.0
播出日期: 1986-11-23
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).
Obituary for a Dead Anchor 7.5
播出日期: 1986-12-07
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
Stage Struck 8.0
播出日期: 1986-12-14
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
Night of the Headless Horseman 7.5
播出日期: 1987-01-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
The Corpse Flew First Class 8.0
播出日期: 1987-01-18
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
Crossed Up 7.5
播出日期: 1987-02-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
Murder in a Minor Key 5.0
播出日期: 1987-02-08
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
The Bottom Line Is Murder 6.7
播出日期: 1987-02-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
Death Takes a Dive 7.5
播出日期: 1987-02-22
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
Simon Says, Color Me Dead 8.0
播出日期: 1987-03-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
No Laughing Murder 0.0
播出日期: 1987-03-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
No Accounting for Murder 7.0
播出日期: 1987-03-22
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
The Cemetery Vote 7.5
播出日期: 1987-04-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the ""accident"".
The Days Dwindle Down 8.0
播出日期: 1987-04-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.
Murder, She Spoke 7.5
播出日期: 1987-05-10
运行时间: 45 min
概述: During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
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