rowing up, I remember being obsessed with daytime detective shows. I can and, of course, my ultimate fave, , . Angela Lansbury was the ultimate crime-fighting goodie as Jessica Fletcher, the novelist-detective who used her plotting skills to solve reallife cases. I didn't recognise it then, but now it's not lost on me how important it was to see a lady in her 60s taking the lead role in a prime-time show. Read our farewell to Angela Lansbury – on page 28 – a true icon of Hollywood's Golden Age.
