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I never met Angela Lansbury, but she was one of those icons that felt like a trusted friend and family member. Every Sunday evening, I devoured Jessica Fletcher’s activities in Murder, She Wrote – catching the bad guys and saving another poor victim from eternal damnation. The younger generation discovered…

I raise my lorgnettes to a national treasure, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in “Sweeney Todd” and crime busters in episodes of TV’s “Murder, She Wrote.”

The actress has been remembered as ‘a true pioneer of the stage and screen’.

From Edwina to Jessica Fletcher, Lansbury looked out for us

In 1997, the cast and crew of "Murder, She Wrote" released a cookbook. Lansbury contributed a dessert

Screen legend Angela Lansbury, who died at the age of 96, was frank about the difficult periods in her life and balancing her family and career, including speaking about a "terrible time" in which her teenage children became involved in the drug scene

In 1970, Angela bought an old rectory near the rural village of Conna in Cork which became their home for many years as her children recovered from drug addiction

It isn't every five-time Tony winner and multiple Oscar nominee who is most famous for starring in a CBS mystery procedural. But as the many appreciations that marked her death on Tuesday made clear, Angela Lansbury was in a class by herself, and "Murder, She Wrote" was, all that quaintness…

The stage and screen actress has been remembered as a ‘Broadway and West End icon’.

The Murder She Wrote star died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, aged 96