I love a slightly kitch, well-made, murder series

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Love Midsommer. Watched them all.
Loved Sherlock.
Loved Why Didn't They Ask Evans.
Loved Bookish.
Loved Knives Out and the other one.
Love anything Agatha Christie.

What might I not have seen? Series or film.

Agatha Raisin, Father Brown for UK one's.

Castle is an American murder/cop etc funny but serious series.
(I also like the Mentalist and Bones as go to box sets - a bit darker, but with underlying gentle humour in there too.)

I’ve been watching Madame Blanc mysteries on Netflix recently, missed it first time round, it’s very camp, not exactly well made but well acted.

Doesn’t get any more Kitsch than ‘Murder She Wrote’ 😅

sorry OP my reading comprehension is off today you did state ‘slightly’ kitsch

Case Histories based on the Kate Atkinson novels are great if you can find them. Has the advantage of Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie!
Second the recommendations for Agatha Raisin. Very frothy and funny.
Jonathan Creek is possibly my favourite series ever.

Monk. It was on Netflix. He’s super quirky. And as someone else has said High potential which is in Disney. Both entertaining and non gory

@Notonthestairs

also Moonflower Murders

Possibly a bit off the mark but we enjoyed Montalbano. Lovely Italian setting.

Annika?

Definitely Magpie and Moonflower Murders
Death Valley was good too

Oh yes. Loved both series and looking forward to the third instalment. Enjoyed the plotting but also I am very shallow and loved Lesley Manville’s clothes!
still hoping she can persuade Horowitz to write a fourth!

Castle is good fun apart from towards the end when it went off a bit
We loved Poker Face, just finished watching the 2nd series.
Also, for something a bit different (tho not kitch) is Dark Wind, based on the Tony Hillerman crime novels set on a Native American reservation in Arizona/New Mexico

Monk !

Another vote for Poker Face (on Now/Sky), so so good!
Love Father Brown (slowly working my way through it, new season being filmed too)
Bookish was also fun definitely fits the kitsch vibe.
A bit different but there’s an interesting Korean drama which is about an estate agent who exorcises properties, solves the mysteries behind the haunting before selling them on. It’s called Sell Your Haunted House and is on Netflix.

Ridley on ITV. Loved it was really good. Just released series 2

Death Valley is new on iplayer. It’s good fun. Rather like Father Brown but modern day.

Miss Fisher Mysteries. Nice period one in the style of Christie.

Agatha Raisin?

Madame White?

My all time favourite is A touch of Frost.

Oh also High Potential.

possibly Rizzoli&Isles although that’s American and more police procedural than detective.

Where's Columbo and Murder she Wrote in your list, cant get much more kitch than that

Actually you can, remember Hart to Hart

'When they met, it was moydor'

Brokenwood. U and Alibi. Series 11 starts on 18 August.

The one set in the White House - The Residence??
On Netflix

I loved this!
A simple FAVOR
Woman of the hour (film)

Just finished The Residence series on Netflix - slightly oddball / kitsch whodunnit murder mystery set in the White House. It was pretty good. A bit drawn out but different and kept you scratching your head

Of course, Gosford Park is top tier murder mystery film with an entire cast of a-listers. If you haven’t seen that you should absolutely go straight to it!

There's Grantchester. I've only seen bits of a couple of episodes while staying with my Mum, but there seem to be any number of episodes and it might fit the bill.