Jessica Fletcher
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Jessica Beatrice Fletcher is a fictional character portrayed on the American 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. Mrs. 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 (and as a not unnatural corollary in many parodies and satire she is arrested by law enforcement agencies as her very presence causes the commitment of murder!), 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.
Ms. Fletcher began her career witing on an old Underwood typewriter, but as her career progressed, she eventually pruchased a suitably antiquated 386 class computer running Windows 3.1. She has friends in high places and low - from multi-millionares with Beech Starship's to down on their luck homeless, and moves effortlessly between the social strata, always seeking to solve mysteries within five minutes of the end of the program, unless the producrs feel they can prolong suspense across two episodes. Perhaps her most notable experience was encountering a Mr. Potts who preferred to be called Mr. Bond - he did at least have an Aston Martin DB6, which she proceded to race to the recue with and drive - despite the fact that for spy gadgets all it has were windscreen wipers !
In a case of life limitating art, when a series of original novels based upon Murder, She Wrote was published in the late 1980s/early 1990s, these books were credited to Jessica Fletcher.it:Jessica Fletcher nl:Jessica Fletcher no:Jessica Flecher Template:Fict-char-stub