It surprises me that three previous reviewers did not recognize that this Murder
She Wrote story was based in large part on the classic film Anastasia where
Ingrid Bergman an amnesia victim is passed off by Yul Brynner as the heir to the
Romanoff crown.
Only in this story the Anastasia part is played by Marc Singer, the grandson of
William Prince whose aide Mason Adams has supervised a missing persons investigation for 20 years.
Quite by accident Angela Lansbury is having lunch with Michael Beck who
was the roommate in college of the grandson and he hears a pianist playing a melody he recognizes as a song written by the grandson.
Here the story does not follow the film though as Beck in the Yul Brynner
role is murdered. It seems as though the idea was to make a dupe out of
Jessica Fletcher who doesn't dupe so easily.
It's not too hard to figure out who murdered Beck. Still it's a fun story.