登州城上空常现神秘蜃景,女捉刀人曾倩携弟曾信押犯途经,因揭下“侠盗”夜魈的通缉令,意外卷入风波。城内怪事频发,为调查此事,曾倩与智谋过人的曹晟、身份成谜的夜魈,以及骄横却有绝技的谢景棠等人被迫联手。在主角团合作中,众人破除误会、寻找真相,既要对抗未知势力,又要在亲情、友情与大义间抉择,揭开这场围绕蜃楼的奇幻迷局。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.