The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.

A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.

An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a furniture store. Are these events connected?

A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.

A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.

Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.

Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.

Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.

When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.

A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.

Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.

Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.

A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.

The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.

An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.

Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.

Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.