Jessica lands in Virginia, researching a book on racing. Her host Matt Cleveland, is the trainer for racing horse Swift Prince, a huge race is looming, and several people have a lot riding on it. Matt is found dead soon after naming his daughter as the jockey.
I looked at the names on the list, saw Mickey Rooney and Tipi Hedren, and I expected this to be an absolute classic, I had high hopes. I hadn't long watched National Velvet, Rooney and Lansbury of course appeared there, fitting for a riding story.
It's a good episode, but sadly not a classic, when you think of that roll call, it deserved to be a racehorse cantering along, instead it's more like a Donkey on Blackpool beach, it's not quite lame, but It deserved to be a whole lot better.
I found the solution a bit of a stretch, even for Murder, she wrote, how on Earth did she take not of that! A little too far fetched.
Rooney and Hedren are excellent, there's some real star quality here.
I loved the setting, a beautiful estate, it felt very different to the usual locations.
6/10.
