Picking up where part one left off Jean Simmons is determined to gather great
publicity in solving the case of the deceased NYC shamus found on Cabot Cove's
beach and reap some of the publicity Jessica Fletcher has gotten for solving real
crimes.
There's also another attempted murder in Cabot Cove of someone near and to
Angela Lansbury. Suspicion falls on Simmons for a lot of things gone wrong
and she did do Lansbury dirty. But she's guilty of a lot less than capital crime
as it turns out.
In the end the story does turn out to be a family tragedy of sorts with an
outstanding climax where oddly enough star Lansbury isn't really involved.
I won't give the names of who was lest I give it away, but there's an outstanding bit of acting by two of the guest stars.