This episode of Murder She Wrote finds Jessica Fletcher with a broken left arm
and unable to type out her latest story. So she has to employ Lisa Cutter for
the job. Among other things Cutter is a would be writer and has a short story
to have Angela Lansbury read. All throughout the series run Angela had to deal
with that.
Cutter is in a creative writing class along with a Jimmy Olsen like cub reporter
David Oliver who works for the local Cabot Cove weekly and its new editor Joe
Dorsey formerly of the Washington Post. Cutter likes the attention as she is
married to a womanizing lout played by Cliff Potts. But one night she calls poor Oliver. The class is taught by David McCallum who is married to Janet
Margolin who made her farewell performance in this role.
One night Oliver gets a frantic call from Cutter who says when she came home
from class there was Potts dead with a scissors sticking in the middle of his
chest. Like a dope Oliver lets her talk him into moving the body.
Of course Oliver didn't fo anything and is only guilty of thinking with his male
member. But there's a nice cast full of suspects waiting for Ron Masak and
Angela Lansbury to sort through.
Here's a hint, in that story that Cutter wanted Jessica Fletcher there is a clue
that indirectly points the way to the killer.
Right in front of her all the time.