This episode has Jessica Fletcher getting her latest epic proof read by one of the young editors Tracy Middendorf. When another editor asks Middendorf to review one of her assigned works that of novelist Richard Beymer she flashes back on a kidnapping she suffered as a child. Beymer in his latest work has told the story of her kidnapping in some rich detail.
Later the source of that work Mary Pat Green winds up dead as does Beymer himself. So Angela Lansbury assists Detective Richard Libertini in solving those two cases but brings closure to Middendorf in that old kidnapping case.
A lot of red herrings are tossed into this one. But I have to say I didn't see part of the solution coming at all. It was one of the most monstrous crimes that the series ever portrayed.
Later the source of that work Mary Pat Green winds up dead as does Beymer himself. So Angela Lansbury assists Detective Richard Libertini in solving those two cases but brings closure to Middendorf in that old kidnapping case.
A lot of red herrings are tossed into this one. But I have to say I didn't see part of the solution coming at all. It was one of the most monstrous crimes that the series ever portrayed.