After a phone call from Lt. Disher, Monk and Sharona find him in Captain Stottlemeyer’s office, drinking Scotch to console himself because his 58-year-old mother has married a 37-year-old antique…

Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution–and why? That’s the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk–but Monk’s response is to ask why it matters. As Monk is…

When Monk’s older brother Ambrose calls him about a “”life-or-death matter,”” Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom he’s been estranged since Ambrose refused…

After visiting the set of the hit TV series Crime Lab S.F. during a celebration of its one hundredth episode, Monk suspects the show’s star, Brad Terry, of murdering his…

Unable to pay for Monk’s services as a private detective, middle-aged law student Julie Parlo offers him a trade–she’ll help Monk become reinstated as a policeman with the SFPD if…

On her way to film a documentary (apparently about a union dispute), Captain Stottlemeyer’s wife, Karen, is badly injured when her car is struck by a tow truck whose nonunion…

In a new twist on the “how could he (or she) possibly have done it” theme that we saw first in “Dale the Whale”, Monk suspects that the man responsible…

Suspecting that her boss, Elliott D’Souza, has been murdered by playboy/publisher Dexter Larsen after withdrawing his financial backing for Larsen’s Sapphire magazine, D’Souza’s secretary hires Monk to investigate. After enlisting…

Faced with a string of nine brutal murders, all with different MOs and no apparent similarities among the victims, Captain Stottlemeyer calls in Monk to help him investigate. Suspicion falls…

In a new twist on the “”how could he (or she) possibly have done it”” theme that we saw first in “”Dale the Whale,”” Monk suspects that the man responsible…

When a ruthless CEO and his wife are lured to an industrial park and are shot dead in their car, Monk connects their murders to a star baseball player’s quest…

When a sarcastic and unpopular ringmaster is murdered by an acrobat wearing a face mask and a Ninja-like costume, Stottlemeyer suspects an animal trainer who not only has a motive…

In an attempt to stabilize his shaky marriage, Captain Stottlemeyer redecorates his office with the New Age artifacts that his “”hippie wife,”” Karen, has given him, but he can’t bring…

Sharona’s actress sister, Gail, is suspected of murdering Hal Duncan, a fellow actor who dies onstage after Gail stabs him with what she insists is a retractable knife. When Sharona’s…

When English teacher Beth Landow falls from the clock tower at Trudy’s former high school, the assistant principal doubts the police department’s conclusion that the death was a suicide and…

When a friend’s college-age son dies mysteriously in Mexico, the mayor sends Monk to investigate. Doubting the coroner’s report that the young man “”drowned”” in mid-air, Monk nevertheless has difficulty…