And I ended my evening watching one more MURDER SHE WROTE. This was the first one in a series of programs this season where Jessica was not a part of the mystery. In order to give Angela a somewhat lighter work schedule, CBS allowed her to have "guest" detectives solve cases while Jessica merely bookended the shows with brief commentary. These shows were never as much fun, and I never looked forward to them.
In this one, there were actually THREE sleuths trying to solve the crime: June Havoc as a mystery writer, Robert Vaughn as a radio sleuth, and Marc Chapman as a newspaper puzzle expert who was trying to break into the real journalism/crime solving business. Other guests were Henry Polic II, Paxton Whitehead, Dane Clark, and Gordon Thomson.