This episode of MSW takes Jessica Fletcher to Missouri and a St.Louis suburb
where an old friend from college Phyllis Newman has gotten rich off her pie
recipes. She now is CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation and she has
accountants managing the finances. But somebody's been embezzling to the
tune of 2 million dollars.
When chief suspect and it turns out fall guy Macon McCalman is killed it's Newman suspected by the police. McCalman is also her ex-husband.
When Angela Lansbury finally puts it all together it's quite a scheme, one of the cleverest in the history of the show. Won't say another word, you have to
see this one for yourself.
Big kudos go out to Max Wright the relentless IRS investigator who Lansbury
points in the right direction. A rather humorless man Wright is practically
orgasmic when Jessica Fletcher points him in the direction of a big fraud case.