Sheriff Amos Tupper wants to solve this one himself and Jessica Fletcher has to get cracking on her new book. Still after a fashion Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley do get together to solve a murder and save Amos's pension and a whole lot of other people's money.
Joe Maross has apparently died and it looks like all of Cabot Cove is out to attend the funeral. Only later when the body is getting ready for shipment to the crematory the casket is knocked over and it ain't Joe Maross. Of course the two women that suspicions fall on are wife Carrie Snodgrass and mistress Audrey Landers.
Then it is discovered the money the late Mr. Maross was investing is gone. And it's late because there's now a body discovered and no doubt it was a homicide.
This episode of Murder She Wrote was the farewell acting appearance of Robert Sterling who was in this with wife Anne Jeffreys with them playing Maross's partner and the partner's wife. Lansbury always cast old timers from her film days in this series.
No doubt it was either the wife or the mistress, no other viable suspects are hinted. Watch if you want to learn who.