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Jessica Fletcher was a character portrayed on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote by veteran British actress Angela Lansbury. This program was one of the most successful of the 1980s and 1990s on the CBS television network. Ms. Fletcher was an author of detective fiction under the name J. B. Fletcher, but was constantly finding that her work and personal lives overlapped, as every week she was introduced into a new situation where someone was killed shortly after her arrival, and naturally she was forced to solve this mystery herself, just as one of her characters would, when the police proved to be incapable of doing so without her help, just as they were in her novels. Ms. Fletcher lived in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, which wags said obviously had the highest murder rate of any small town in the civilized world, but her travels as an author very frequently took her to places around much of the English-speaking world, which gave her writers a little more ability to stretch the character and her situations than rural New England alone would have provided.
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