The story of Murder She Wrote Characters revolves around an English school teacher who has retired whose husband had died. The name of the character is Jessica Fletcher and she had become a mystery story writer after her retirement from the school. Although Jennifer was famous but she continued to live in Cabot Cave in Maine. External scenes of Cabot Cave in the drama were captured in Mendocino, California.
The prominent feature about the character is her essential curiosity to investigate. She always investigates any murder that happens and murders happen at regular intervals. The body of the murdered people was found at remote places in the Cabot Cave. This series of mysterious murdered was termed as "Cabot Cave Syndrome" by the people.
In most of such occasions Jessica gets herself into the inquiry. The law enforcement always wants to arrest and investigate the probable culprit but Jessica always opposes the police and tells them that the person they suspect as the murderer is the innocent one. The real culprit is someone else. After that with careful method of investigation she catches the actual murderer and the role of murderer was always performed by a different celebrity from the movies or television. This gave concept of Celebrity Guest star in each episode.
Jessica had variable sort of relationships with police officers. Two sheriffs of Cabot Cave resign because Jessica was meddling in their affairs. Most of the police officers never allowed Jessica to come anywhere nears the scene of the crime but Jessica always agreed them with her thoughtful judgments and perceptions. Some police officers always helped Jessica because they were admirers of her novels. With time Jessica developed friendship with police officers of many police officers across United States of America. She also had friendship with British Police officers attached with Scotland Yard.
In 1991, producer J. Michael Straczynski and executive producer David Moessinger were newly appointed and they raised the ratings of the drama by moving Jessica to New York. The ratings of Drama serial were raised and it got place in Top 10. Later T.V channel changed the show from Sunday to Thursday. Sunday shows have more viewership so viewership of "Murder She Wrote" had dropped. So T.V, network cancelled the show and didn't continue after that.