Jessica Fletcher is in Wisconsin to collect a $750,000 donation to her Literacy Fund from Larry Armstrong. Larry is the co-owner of Gary and Larry's Frozen Stuff, an ice cream and sorbet manufacturing company, who has always promoted charitable giving. Soon after Jessica's arrival, however, the company's accountant Kyle McGregor is found dead, an apparent suicide, and the three-quarter million dollar donation is missing. There has been much friction in the company between Larry and co-owner Gary Herling who is far more interested in profits than ethical behavior. He's been using hormones to artificially increase milk yields and he's even been passing off the cost of his wife's extravagant lifestyle to the company. It's no great surprise when Gary is found dead in a freezer but Jessica knows that they have the wrong man when the police arrest Larry for the crime.
—garykmcd