《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: Laurence Heath
播出日期: 1992-09-20
运行时间: 45 min
概述: During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.
编剧: Robert Hamner
播出日期: 1992-09-27
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1992-10-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.
编剧: J. Michael Straczynski
播出日期: 1992-11-01
运行时间: 45 min
概述: While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1992-11-15
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.
播出日期: 1992-11-22
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.
编剧: Robert Swanson
播出日期: 1992-11-29
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.
播出日期: 1992-12-06
运行时间: 45 min
概述: After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!
播出日期: 1992-12-13
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.
播出日期: 1993-01-03
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.
编剧: J. Michael Straczynski
播出日期: 1993-01-10
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.
编剧: Laurence Heath
播出日期: 1993-01-17
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1993-02-07
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?
播出日期: 1993-02-14
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.
编剧: Donald Ross
播出日期: 1993-02-21
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?
播出日期: 1993-02-28
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.
播出日期: 1993-03-07
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.
编剧: Mary Ann Kasica
播出日期: 1993-04-04
运行时间: 45 min
概述: A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.
编剧: Tom Sawyer
播出日期: 1993-03-21
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?
播出日期: 1993-05-02
运行时间: 46 min
概述: A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.
播出日期: 1993-05-09
运行时间: 45 min
概述: Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.
编剧: Chris Manheim
播出日期: 1993-05-16
运行时间: 45 min
概述: The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.
