Episode 3: Rimshots at Mushrooms

We are meeting one of Jessica's many relatives, niece Victoria (Genie Francis) in San Francisco TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE. She shares her concerns with Aunt Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) that the groom-to-be Howard (Jeff Conaway of Taxi and Grease) might be seeing another woman. But, surprise! HE is the other woman!  Yes, naturally the lipstick on his collar is his own, as Howard is a female impersonator at Les Champignons, a cabaret run by Martin Landau.  A surprisingly heterosexual mystery solved only leads to another heterosexual mystery to resolve: who killed the boss if not the fiance in a caftan? Is it the glamorous wife? Her lover, who's yet another heterosexual drag queen? The drum-playing comedian?  The absolute queen of a maître d'?  Jessica joins Lt. Floyd Novack (Harry Guardino) to solve the case against Howard. Bart Braverman, Gabe Kaplan, Barbara Rhoades, and the always stunning and eyeball-rolling Carol Lawrence are also featured in the third episode of the Murder She Wrote, BIRDS OF A FEATHER.