Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough

Phylicia Rashād as Cassandra Hawkins

Michael Jace as Samuel Pinkney

David Ogden Stiers as Stanford Thornton

Madison Mason as Charles Hobbs

Tim Abell as Jeb McNell

Beth Grant as Louisa Ashland

Walton Goggins as Billy Weber

Taraji P. Henson as Bess Pinckney

Gloria Stuart as Eliza Hoops

Tim DeKay as Robert Mercer

Elizabeth Dennehy as Archivist

John Hostetter as Cornelius Ashland

Keith Jefferson as Jeremiah Jessup

Lee Garlington as Laura Lee Curtis

Jeremiah Birkett as Jim

Peter Sherayko as Morgan Spencer