Sounds like On the Beach.

WhoFrank'dit?

The downhill slide began when Ed McBain died.

Yes, yes, yes and again, yes.

I say Freaky Deaky.  Or Get Shorty.

I did that once with a guy who kept sitting through the light changes, and it turned out he was dead.  Shit happens.

My father was a bad driver his whole life, and he finally gave up his license after his last accident.  I suspect that it's just as much driving style as it is age in dangerous older drivers.

If you can't afford a Jag, get yourself a python.  They love to snuggle and hug.

If there's a quarter million dollars on the line, your concentration may be a bit shaky whether you're a lawyer or bus driver.  He was close enough to smell the ink on the bills at that point, and he just wasn't as controlled as he could have been.  

I was divided between Kam and Lindsey.  Cris wasn't even on my radar.

The first one, death by slingshot, was in one of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, Murder Must Advertise.

The Family a few years ago was a lot of fun.  With George Hamilton.

I'd like to see some of the British series.

There were sporadic references to other murder mysteries throughout the series, both crimes and authors.  Not enough, though I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of crime fiction.
I did like the "Saint Agatha" reference, as in Agatha Christie.

I enjoyed it.  It struck me as blissfully silly.
Lindsey picked Cris as the murderer in the first episode and stuck with it all the way to the end, and she still lost.  Sort of confused by that.
Part of the "clue" structure was figuring out who was withholding evidence, when and why.
It was fun, a summer diversion.

alles

I haven't even gotten over the loss of Reginald Hill, still miss Westlake, and now this?
The sole advantage of getting old is knowing that death is the cure for all pain.

Freaky Deaky—it's the gateway drug.

I read that as "inedible," which oddly also fits most of his characters.

Dog, according to some "authority," it's now all right to say "literally" when that's not what you mean.  Because if everyone is wrong, then they're not wrong anymore.