• Air date: 16 Sep '90 22 episodes
      An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. Trials & Tribulations

      16 Sep '90
      Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.
    • 2. Deadly Misunderstanding

      23 Sep '90
      A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.
    • 3. See You in Court, Baby

      30 Sep '90
      Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.
    • 4. Hannigan's Wake

      28 Oct '90
      A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
    • 5. The Family Jewels

      04 Nov '90
      A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected
    • 6. A Body to Die For

      11 Nov '90
      Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.
    • 7. The Return of Preston Giles

      18 Nov '90
      This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
    • 8. The Great Twain Robbery

      25 Nov '90
      Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.
    • 9. Ballad for a Blue Lady

      02 Dec '90
      Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.
    • 10. Murder in F Sharp

      16 Dec '90
      Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.
    • 11. Family Doctor

      06 Jan '91
      In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.
    • 12. Suspicion of Murder

      20 Jan '91
      Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.
    • 13. Moving Violation

      03 Feb '91
      An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.
    • 14. Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?

      10 Feb '91
      A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.
    • 15. The Taxman Cometh

      17 Feb '91
      The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.
    • 16. From the Horse's Mouth

      24 Feb '91
      An argument over stud fees ends in murder.
    • 17. The Prodigal Father

      10 Mar '91
      A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
    • 18. Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?

      17 Mar '91
      A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.
    • 19. Thursday's Child

      07 Apr '91
      A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.
    • 20. Murder, Plain & Simple

      28 Apr '91
      When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
    • 21. Tainted Lady

      05 May '91
      The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.
    • 22. The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane

      12 May '91
      The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.