Murder She Wrote location named as manslaughter capital of world

Researchers for BBC Radio 4's More Or Less programme found the town to be far deadlier than densely-populated Los Angeles, setting for Columbo, Perry Mason and The Rockford Files.

Cabot Cove was supposedly located in Maine. In reality it was filmed mostly in Montecito, California, and the harbour used in the series was part of the Universal Studios theme park.

The series ran from 1984-1996 and was one of the most successful detective shows in television history. Midway through the run, Lansbury requested that her character be given an apartment in New York and many of her manslaughter cases took place there.

According to Radio 4, British television's manslaughter capital is another sleepy setting: the killing fields of Midsomer Murders.

The ITV series had an average of 2.6 manslaughters per episode, amounting to 21 victims each year.

The More Or Less team based their research on the assumption that Midsomer has the same population as Oxfordshire, one of the filming locations.

They concluded that Midsomer has an annual manslaughter rate of 32 per million - three times higher than the Oxfordshire manslaughter rate and on a par with both Chile and Latvia.

Charlotte McDonald, presenter of More Or Less, said: "Even London, the most manslaughterous place in Britain, has a manslaughter rate that is dwarfed by Cabot Cove and Midsomer county."

:: William Windom, the Emmy Award-winning actor who co-starred in Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 88. Windom played Dr Seth Hazlitt, Cabot Cove physician and Jessica Fletcher's closest friend.

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