Jessica flies in for her old friend Kathleen Lane's campaign in the senatorial primaries and accepts to replace her suddenly deserted speech-writer. After a dodgy TV talk-show host makes a sleazy deal with opponent Arthur Drelinger's campaign staff, he gets and publishes pictures suggesting Lane had an affair with her much younger campaign manager, Bud Johnson, who is found dead, apparently suicide by jumping in her bathrobe from her balcony, which Jessica believes to be staged, but by whom and why? Meanwhile, Kathleen's rich and generous, much older husband, Jackson Lane, also suspected of financial faults, speaks up for her innocence, but can that save her candidature?
—KGF Vissers