I noticed that the death of Horatio Baldwin looked VERY familiar, as this method (or a variation on it) has been used in many movies, TV shows and books. Despite this, the episode is entertaining...though the murderer's actions are complicated to say the least.
While visiting family, Jessica Fletcher meets the owner and guiding force of a strange amusement park, Horatio Baldwin (James Coco). However, she soon realizes the guy is a real nasty piece of work...so you assume that HE will be the murder victim...or at least the first one. This turns out to be true but the way his body is discovered is odd. Guards hear a shot ring out and when they use an axe to enter the room from which it came, they find that their boss shot himself. But the autopsy shows he was already dead before the show rang out...which makes you wonder what the heck really happened.
Apart from an overly complicated way to hide the murder, this is a very enjoyable episode...worth seeing and clever.