On a visit to New York City Jessica Fletcher and nephew Grady get to stay in a
really posh hotel owned by Janet Leigh. She's got a much younger husband who
was Michael Horton fraternity brother Robert Desiderio. Wouldn't you know it,
there's a murder of Jennifer Holmes who was a switchboard operator at the
hotel who Desiderio has been getting very intimate with on the side.
Janet Leigh could have been the model for the notorious Leona Helmsley. She's
the Queen of Mean before Helmsley got that title bestowed on her. She notoriously pays her workers some low wages and that comes back to haunt
her in more ways than one.
As for Desiderio he's less a friend and brother than Michael Horton thought
he had.
Monte Markham plays the tuxedo clad police detective who is distressed a
mere homicide could call him away from the ballet. Jessica Fletcher has to do
all the work here.
Last postscript scene is a doozy, I'll say no more.