• Air date: 24 Sep '89 22 episodes
      An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. Appointment in Athens

      24 Sep '89
      Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.
    • 2. Seal of the Confessional

      01 Oct '89
      A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.
    • 3. The Grand Old Lady

      08 Oct '89
      When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.
    • 4. The Error of Her Ways

      15 Oct '89
      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.
    • 5. Jack & Bill

      29 Oct '89
      A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.
    • 6. Dead Letter

      05 Nov '89
      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?
    • 7. Night of the Tarantula

      12 Nov '89
      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.
    • 8. When the Fat Lady Sings

      19 Nov '89
      The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.
    • 9. Test of Wills

      26 Nov '89
      A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.
    • 10. Class Act

      03 Dec '89
      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.
    • 11. Town Father

      17 Dec '89
      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.
    • 12. Goodbye Charlie

      07 Jan '90
      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.
    • 13. If the Shoe Fits

      21 Jan '90
      A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.
    • 14. How To Make a Killing Without Really Trying

      04 Feb '90
      Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.
    • 15. The Fixer-upper

      11 Feb '90
      Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.
    • 16. The Big Show of 1965

      25 Feb '90
      Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.
    • 17. Murder -- According to Maggie

      04 Mar '90
      The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.
    • 18. O'Malley's Luck

      25 Mar '90
      An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.
    • 19. Always a Thief

      08 Apr '90
      Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.
    • 20. Shear Madness

      29 Apr '90
      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.
    • 21. The Szechuan Dragon

      09 May '90
      Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.
    • 22. The Sicilian Encounter

      20 May '90
      Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.