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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 12 Episode 9 - Deadly Bidding
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S12:E9

    Jessica agrees to go to New York to bid on a manuscript purportedly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and while there, she gets mixed up in the murder of a local forger who had been involved in the theft of a priceless Degas painting two years earlier when she tries to help Charlie Garrett out of a jam.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  2. undefined Season 12 Episode 19 - Evidence of Malice
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S12:E19

    Deputy Andy bought a house with numerous defects from the victim and emerges as the chief suspect.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  3. undefined Season 9 Episode 18 - Dead to Rights
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S9:E18

    Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  4. undefined Season 9 Episode 5 - The Dead File
    8.3/10(2 votes)

    S9:E5

    Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  5. undefined Season 7 Episode 7 - The Return of Preston Giles
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E7

    This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  6. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - Appointment in Athens
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S6:E1

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  7. undefined Season 10 Episode 4 - The Phantom Killer
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S10:E4

    A media tycoon may have been killed by a literary agent who seems as substantial as smoke.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  8. undefined Season 10 Episode 18 - The Trouble with Seth
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S10:E18

    Seth vanishes, and everyone is sure there was foul play.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  9. undefined Season 9 Episode 3 - The Mole
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S9:E3

    Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Broadway Malady
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    S1:E12

    Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 7 - Deadline for Murder
    7.9/10(4 votes)

    S3:E7

    A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 18 - No Laughing Murder
    7.8/10(2 votes)

    S3:E18

    After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    S2:E2

    Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of Joshua Peabody. Not everyone is thus inclined though, and many people believe it's just a random dead body. But when Jessica and Amos head back to the dig site, they find there's another body there! Jessica not only has to find out who killed Wheatley, she has to help an old friend when his past comes back to haunt him.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  14. undefined Season 6 Episode 21 - The Szechuan Dragon
    7.5/10(3 votes)

    S6:E21

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  15. undefined Season 12 Episode 2 - A Quaking in Aspen
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S12:E2

    In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband, Grant Boswell.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  16. undefined Season 9 Episode 13 - Dead Eye
    7.5/10(1 votes)

    S9:E13

    Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  17. undefined Season 7 Episode 22 - The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S7:E22

    The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  18. undefined Season 8 Episode 10 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S8:E10

    Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  19. undefined Season 5 Episode 13 - Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E13

    A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  20. undefined Season 10 Episode 14 - Deadly Assets
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S10:E14

    A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  21. undefined Season 7 Episode 5 - The Family Jewels
    6.3/10(2 votes)

    S7:E5

    A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 16 - Death in Disguise
    5.3/10(4 votes)

    S2:E16

    Diana is assigned to protect an industrialist from an assasination attempt.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  23. undefined Season 8 Episode 18 - Programmed for Murder
    2.8/10(3 votes)

    S8:E18

    There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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Tom Sawyer Ratings Summary

"Deadly Bidding" is the best rated episode written by Tom Sawyer. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/23/1995 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Evidence of Malice".