This episode has Angela Lansbury telling us viewers the plot of her latest mystery
masterpiece. This particular episode tends heavily toward the comic and it
should with married couple Bill Maher and Faith Ford as stars.
Maher is a private detective, but hardly any Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler type hero. He's from the snap and trap school of detective with his
ever present camera working divorce cases hoping to find an errant spouse
cheating.
But one day a lawyer drops in and tells him that he could be a secondary heir
as he is trying to locate his Uncle Charlie who was a real sponge of a relation
while he was alive. But now some woman has left him a seven figure estate
and it goes to Maher if he can prove his uncle is also no longer among the
living. As he was last heard from near Reno, Nevada, they decide to head there and claim a body which was found near railroad tracks 30 miles west of
Reno as dear old Uncle Charlie.
Maher and Ford work a good con. But two others made the same claim that this mangled corpse is one of their relatives.
I can't say much more other than in the process Maher helps Sheriff David
Huddleston solve another murder. And there's a delicious double ironic twist
involving Maher and Huddleston as a climax.
Lots of humor is laced into this Murder She Wrote.
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