Plot Summary:Promised an original, Jessica travels to Paris for her friend fashion-designer Eva Taylor's first high-profile show. Only her devoted assistant Peter Appleyard assisted when Eva's investor, Maxim Soury, extorted a 50-50 deal not to pull the plug on a loan and add $10,000 for a supermodel. Next Maxim is found shot in his hotel-room, with indications Eva did it. Jessica and gallant Paris police inspector Panassic soon find Soubry was an adulterer, known so by his wife Claudia, and a dirty pornographic extortionist with a kept mistress, bar singer Valerie Bechet, mother of model Kim. Unlike the police, Jessica believes two maids claiming each to have heard a shot with a 20 minutes interval during the fashion-show, and works out the meaning of the dresses mix-up and missing purse during the otherwise perfect show...
Angela Lansbury returns as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and more people are turning up dead wherever she ventures! From killer fashion to ancient curses to death at the rodeo, Jessica Fletcher is the only one clever enough to read between the lines and see the clues nobody knew were there.