Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Acting
Lansbury playing her own ancestor is unhinged commitment
Direction
Shaw's flashback structure actually lands the emotional weight
Director
Anthony Pullen Shaw
Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
Phylicia Rashād
Cassandra Hawkins
Michael Jace
Samuel Pinkney
David Ogden Stiers
Stanford Thornton
Madison Mason
Charles Hobbs
Tim Abell
Jeb McNell
Beth Grant
Louisa Ashland
Walton Goggins
Billy Weber
Taraji P. Henson
Bess Pinckney
Gloria Stuart
Eliza Hoops
Tim DeKay
Robert Mercer
Elizabeth Dennehy
Archivist
John Hostetter
Cornelius Ashland
Keith Jefferson
Jeremiah Jessup
Lee Garlington
Laura Lee Curtis
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