In Los Angeles to promote her new novel, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) learns her latest mystery has been appropriated by an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. Doug McClure, Gail Strickland and Ken Swofford guest star.
Jessica sets out to clear the name of a friend (Paul Sand) who is a prime suspect in a murder case.
While on a case in Sicily, British intelligence agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou) becomes involved with a widow (Deidre Hall) who is under the watchful eye of volatile in-laws. Guest stars: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Baggetta.
Donna's joy over Medavoy leaving his wife is short-lived when he has a change of heart. Kelly and Sipowicz track down a man who killed the husband of a good friend of Kelly's, while an angry wife strikes back after suffering spousal abuse from her husband.
A gang in Chinatown tries to start a war between rival criminal factions; guests Michael Constantine, Robert Ito.
