What Would Jessica Do: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast

Jessica spends her birthday at an Irish pub in New York, and of course someone turns up dead.

It's Angela Lansbury's birthday week, so we picked the episode where it's Jessica's birthday too (Season 8, "To the Last Will I Grapple with Thee"). Sarah breaks down the kind of rage and obsession behind a death that isn't what it looks like and traces the trick back to a Sherlock Holmes story. Caroline counts the terrible Irish accents, catches Jessica flirting with the detective over Melville quotes, and finds a real case with a twist straight out of the episode. Plus, the twins go exploring in a sewer, a measuring cup gets a new job, and we decide whether Jessica would ever join Facebook.

Content note: this episode includes discussion of suicide. If you're struggling, you can call or text 988 (in the US) anytime.

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🎵 Theme Music: "In Death We Type" composed by Bryan Hillebrandt. Check out more of his work at https://bryhill.bandcamp.com/

Jessica should be home finishing her book. Instead, she stays at a convent to help an old sorority sister solve a nun’s murder.

The episode aired 39 years ago today, so we’re celebrating its anniversary properly. Sarah explains the psychology of who does this kind of thing and why. Then we get into a real convent murder: the case of Sister Abhaya in India, which took 28 years to solve. Somewhere along the way, we start guessing what period products Jessica would buy, and Caroline proposes shutting down the world for one day to teach men about women’s bodies. (She only needs four hours, tops.)

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🎵 Theme Music: "In Death We Type" composed by Bryan Hillebrandt. Check out more of his work at https://bryhill.bandcamp.com/