《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。
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1989-09-24
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.
播出日期: 1989-10-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1989-10-08
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.
编剧: Donald Ross
播出日期: 1989-10-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1989-10-29
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.
播出日期: 1989-11-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a furniture store. Are these events connected?
编剧: Chris Manheim
播出日期: 1989-11-12
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1989-11-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.
编剧: Robert Swanson
播出日期: 1989-11-26
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1989-12-03
运行时间: 45 min
概述: 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.
播出日期: 1989-12-17
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.
播出日期: 1990-01-07
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.
播出日期: 1990-01-21
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.
编剧: Robert Swanson
播出日期: 1990-02-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.
编剧: Oliver Hailey
播出日期: 1990-02-11
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.
播出日期: 1990-02-25
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1990-03-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.
播出日期: 1990-03-25
运行时间: 45 min
概述: An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.
编剧: Peter S. Fischer
播出日期: 1990-04-08
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.
编剧: Chris Manheim
播出日期: 1990-04-29
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1990-05-06
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.
编剧: Robert Swanson
播出日期: 1990-05-20
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.
