This may not be one of the best of Murder She Wrote stories. But it was certainly one of the most original and inventive.
JB Fletcher is leaving a banquet and she runs right into a man having a heart attack which caused him to crash his car. Like Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much, Angela Lansbury gets to hear the dying driver ask for a priest and then confess to murdering someone and saying he was a professional killer. Sure enough Father Cliff DeYoung arrives and wants to know what the dying man said.
Reporting all this to Sergeant Laurence Luckinbill of the Hartford, Connecticut PD, the two then find out that the deceased who was allegedly dead is very much alive and living in a stately mansion where Lansbury and Luckinbill arrive. Such various and sundry folks as the widow Karen Valentine, Robert Reed, Mark Shera, Victor Mohica, and Gregory Sierra all live in this place.
I won't go any further except to say this house is not all it seems and there's a lot of intrigue and the strangling death of one of the above cast members.
There's also a lot of lies and cover up going on. Leave it to our mystery writer to figure out what exactly is going on.
Lansbury and Luckinbill wade through a pile of propaganda before this one is sorted out.