Murder, She Wrote

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.

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.

The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.

Poor Jessica can't take a vacation without finding mystery or murder. In this case, it is an election campaign gone bad.

While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.

In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.