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    Angela Lansbury, Broadway star and spunky detective in ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ dies at 96

    by Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Oct 11, 2022 6 minutes
    Actress Angela Lansbury, right, with her mother, actress Moyna Macgill, at the 35th annual Academy Awards on April 16, 1963, in Hollywood, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.

    Lansbury, who played television’s literary sleuth Jessica Fletcher from 1984 to 1996, died Tuesday “peacefully in her sleep,” her family said in a statement obtained by NBC News. She was 96.

    Her TV series “Murder, She Wrote” was a classic but light-hearted whodunit, a literate and sophisticated show complete with clues and red herrings. Like its star, the show had exceedingly good manners that made for easy family viewing.

    The series hovered near the top of the ratings for almost a decade, becoming a signature piece for CBS and making Lansbury a household name. Nominated for a dozen Emmys for playing the warm and spunky detective, Lansbury never won but repeatedly said fans made her feel like a “national treasure.”

    Although she considered the “Murder” mysteries “formula stuff,” Lansbury said the program had been popular because it

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