This Murder She Wrote story might be the first one I've ever seen set in Monte
Carlo where the center of the plot wasn't gambling. Jessica Fletcher has come to
the Riviera to visit another old classmate Dina Merrill who is a widow trying to
keep control of the hotel she owns. The mortgage is held by a real lizard of a
human being in David Birney. So you know right away that Birney is slated to
be the victim in this story.
There are two victims however Birney and a waiter at the hotel Victor Touzie who doubled as a spy for hire. It's what Touzie did as an avocation that sends
Angela Lansbury on the track of the real killer who the Monte Carlo cops think
is Neill Barry, Merrill's son.
Nicely done story with Birney a real standout.