Jessica is still contending with her witchy rival mystery writer Eudora McVeigh Shipton. Although the duplicitous Eudora confesses that she has stolen the notes for Jessica's latest novel, she denies that she tried to do her rival in with a poisoned apple and even more emphatically denies murdering the detective who has trailed Eudora all the way to Cabot Cove. The two amateur sleuths decide to briefly bury the hatchet and solve the mystery provided that Eudora can be trusted any farther than she can be thrown!