Murder, She Wrote SECRETS FROM THE SET

FRIENDS AND CO-STARS SHARE BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORIES FROM THE BELOVED SERIES

-  Amanda Champagne-Meadows & Fortune Benatar

One of showrunner and writer Thomas B. Sawyer’s favorite possessions from his years on Murder, She Wrote is a mug. It reads: “Cabot Cove Coroner: If you lived here, you’d be dead by now.… We used to joke about it being the murder capital of America,” he tells Closer.

For 12 seasons beginning in 1984, Angela Lansbury played Jessica Fletcher, a small-town retired English teacher and bestselling writer who solved murder mysteries on the side. “Angela was such a sweet, lovely person,” says Tom, author of the memoir The Adventures of the REAL Tom Sawyer. “She was a class act and made very few demands. There was very little tension.”