What is the name of the town in "Murder, She Wrote"?

Eagle-eyed viewers occasionally spotted palm trees swaying in the background of what was supposed to be coastal Maine, thanks to the show filming all its Cabot Cove exterior shots in Mendocino, California. Angela Lansbury later explained they picked the Northern California town because shooting in actual rural Maine was too expensive, plus the Victorian architecture looked perfect for their quaint New England vision. The fictional fishing village became so notorious for its constant stream of dead bodies that fans coined the term "Cabot Cove syndrome" to describe the ridiculous murder rate in this supposedly peaceful town. If you actually ran the numbers, this charming little village would have topped FBI crime statistics with a homicide rate that made the world's most dangerous cities look like sleepy suburbs.