After being temporarily institutionalized, Monk stumbles upon a four-year-old murder. Or is his mind playing tricks on him?

Sharona's life is in danger while Monk brilliantly solves a seemingly perfect crime committed during a San Francisco earthquake.

Monk takes a job as a substitute high school teacher to determine whether a teacher's fall from a clock tower was really a suicide, or a lesson in murder.

When his paperboy is murdered, Monk turns to the pages of the newspaper for clues to solve the baffling crime.

It's unholy matrimony as Monk and Sharona pretend to be married to get the goods on a con man.

When a big-time record producer is found dead in his panic room, Monk must help decide the guilt or innocence of an unlikely suspect.

Monk must get to the truth when it appears that his late wife Trudy is still alive.

When a detective dies at the police department Christmas party after drinking from a poisoned bottle of port intended for Captain Stottlemeyer, can Monk find the killer?

Monk tries to prove that an astronaut committed murder despite the suspect's seemingly airtight alibi: he was in space.

Lieutenant Disher quits the force when no one believes that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia at the dentist.

When Lt. Disher inherits a farm from an uncle who committed suicide, he decides to quit the police force and start a new life in the country. But Disher soon suspects that his uncle was murdered, so Monk joins him on the farm to investigate.

When Monk suffers from insomnia, he ventures into the night and stumbles upon a murder.

When Monk's delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monk's apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.

While investigating the puzzling, high profile murder of a maid whose assailant apparently tried to treat her wounds, Monk finds himself increasingly drawn to another case involving a visiting African man investigating his beloved wife's hit-and-run death.