《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 8)
Bite the Big Apple 8.0
播出日期: 1991-09-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
Night Fears 8.0
播出日期: 1991-09-22
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
Unauthorized Obituary 8.0
播出日期: 1991-09-29
运行时间: 45 min
概述: After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
Thicker Than Water 8.0
播出日期: 1991-10-06
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
Lines of Excellence 8.0
播出日期: 1991-11-03
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
Judge Not 8.0
播出日期: 1991-11-10
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
Terminal Connection 8.0
播出日期: 1991-11-17
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
A Killing in Vegas 7.0
播出日期: 1991-11-24
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
The Committee 8.0
播出日期: 1991-12-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
The List of Yuri Lermentov 7.0
播出日期: 1991-12-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
Danse Diabolique 8.0
播出日期: 1992-01-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
The Witch's Curse 7.2
播出日期: 1992-01-12
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
Incident in Lot 7 4.5
播出日期: 1992-01-19
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
The Monte Carlo Murders 0.0
播出日期: 1992-02-02
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief 8.0
播出日期: 1992-03-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
Ever After 6.0
播出日期: 1992-03-08
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee 6.5
播出日期: 1992-03-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
Programmed for Murder 1.0
播出日期: 1992-04-05
运行时间: 45 min
概述: There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
Day of the Dead 7.0
播出日期: 1992-04-26
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
Angel of Death 4.0
播出日期: 1992-05-03
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
Badge of Honor 0.0
播出日期: 1992-05-10
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
Murder On Madison Avenue 1.0
播出日期: 1992-05-17
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
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