Over My Dead Body - Season 1 (1990)

Nikki investigates the murder of her new boss and all the clues seem to lead to her old flame, a former professional baseball player. Meanwhile, Maxwell struggles to write a children's book about a grumpy mongoose.

Maxwell is hired to write a tell-all book on a model recently acquitted of murdering her husband. He falls for her but Nikki begins suspecting she was actually guilty of the murder.

The duo investigates the murder of Maxwell's old friend, a morning radio host shot in a locked soundproof booth.

A spectacular murder/robbery at an art show brings Maxwell's old Scotland Yard rival Inspector Miles Cottrell to town. Trouble arises when Nikki falls for Miles' oily charm.

After Nikki is handed a baby in a supermarket by a woman on the run, she and Maxwell come between an old mobster looking for an heir and his daughter turned FBI informant.

The corpse of Maxwell's publisher Gus keeps appearing and disappearing during an afternoon-long brunch thrown in Max's honour and populated by Gus' bickering clients.

A famous actor hired to play Maxwell in a movie tails the duo on a case involving a murdered photo reporter who's uncovered corruption in a senatorial election.

Maxwell and Nikki take on a case involving a femme fatale so far investigated by three different PIs all of whom wound up dead.