Murder, She Wrote
Murder To A Jazz Beat
Season 1, Episode 13 · Aired 1985-02-03
Synopsis
Jessica arrives early in New Orleans on a book tour and spends some time as a tourist in the French Corner. On the night her host takes her out to a night club for the final performance of a popular Jazz band before relocating out of state, the leader drops dead, apparently from a heart attack. However, at Jessica's prodding, the police discover he was actually poisoned and there were several people, including several bandmates, who wanted the man dead.
In the series
This episode is part of Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996) on CBS.
Angela Lansbury as America's most polite murder magnet.
Key cast
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
- William Windom as Dr. Seth Hazlitt
- Ron Masak as Sheriff Mort Metzger
- Tom Bosley as Sheriff Amos Tupper