Watch Murder, She Wrote Season 8 Episode 11: Danse Diabolique Online

	IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 from votes
	Release: 1992 / Murder, She Wrote / Season 8 / Episode 11
	Genre: Crime \| Drama \| Mystery
	Director: Alexander Singer
	Stars: Angela Lansbury, Marisa Berenson, Ernie Lively
	Synopsis: Geoffrey Presser's struggling San Francisco company has choreographer Edward Hale recreate the legendary Diabolical Dance, originally created for a czar's mistress. The dance has been performed exactly twice, each time abandoned after the lead ballerina died. (Jessica Fletcher correctly diagnoses a heart attack from a film made during an attempted 2nd production.) Jessica also discovers a curtain 'accident' is staged by Presser for publicity during the first rehearsal, viewed by prospective investors. Presser's wife, Claudia Cameron, is pushed from the lead role by a younger and craftier Lily Roland, to the exasperation of the lead male, Damien Bolo, prefers the mature dancer and barely tolerates the upstart's awkwardness. Lily dies during the premiere; she was poisoned, but not from the real rose that Bolo had substituted for a prop. Jessica examines the company and events with a critically sharper eye for ballet than SFPD detective lieutenant Martin Kinicki.