Dressed to Kill (1980)

Plotzle Original · O106 · June 16, 2026 · Thriller / Mystery

Six plot descriptions for Dressed to Kill (1980). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A tailor in Philadelphia discovers his wealthy client murdered in her fitted gown and becomes the primary suspect when detectives find his monogrammed scissors embedded in her chest.
2. A mortician prepares bodies for open-casket funerals but notices identical ligature marks on seven supposedly unrelated drowning victims and begins photographing the evidence without alerting authorities or families.
3. An anorexic fashion editor manipulates her assistant into increasingly dangerous weight-loss competitions while documenting their deterioration for a tell-all memoir that valorizes starvation as empowerment and discipline.
4. Someone begins leaving vintage military uniforms at crime scenes across Boston and a forensic analyst realizes the costumes correspond to her grandfather's regiment but he died before she was born.
5. A detective interviews three women who each claim responsibility for the same unsolved stabbing but their testimonies contradict one another and he cannot determine which confession represents the truth.
6. A prostitute witnesses a mysterious woman murder a homemaker and becomes trapped in a dangerous situation as police suspect her of the crime while the real killer pursues her to eliminate the witness.