In season one of "Murder, She Wrote", Jessica Fletcher spent time in New Orleans and surprisingly (sarcasm intended) someone is murdered. Now, she's returned to the city and guess what? Someone else is murdered!
When the story begins, Jessica's Aunt (Penny Singleton) asks her to stop by New Orleans on her way to Texas. When she arrives, however, it's Mardi Gras AND the hotel has lost her reservation...so she goes to visit one of her husband's relatives to perhaps spend the night there. However, it turns out Cal Fletcher (Peter Bonerz) is having a huge costume party at his house and Jessica is having a hard time finding him. Later, she thinks she sees him, though nearly everyone is wearing masks, and then this person enters a room and ends up killing someone...someone who Cal would have plenty of motives for killing. But Calhoun insists he wasn't at the party and didn't kill anyone. What's really happening?
The big twist is easy to figure out...as anyone could have pretended to be Cal since they were masked at the party. But who and why? That's for Jessica to determine.
This is a decent episode and is enjoyable to watch. However, like the previous New Orleans episode, it was filmed no where near Louisiana. A few times it's easy to tell...other times it looks much like the actual French Quarter of New Orleans. Not a great episode but worth seeing.