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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 671 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
25) Missing persons
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unstoppable force of nature in a hat and sensible shoes, Hetty decides to try tracking down the long-lost son of her best friend's husband. A taste of success encourages her to go looking for missing persons as a professional sleuth.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor sharp mind and the aid of the affabel Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance of 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (590 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad are about to welcome a few new faces, but first, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her loyal team, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, and Steve McAndrew, will solve their final cases together, bringing justice to decades-old murders that stumped London's Metropolitan Police.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unhappily married woman looks to separate from her husband; a young man looks to find out more about the paranormal; a séance predicts sudden death and danger; a woman takes a job as a decoy for the visiting duchess, who is rumored to be the target of a potential assassination attempt; a man sets out on a road trip after hitting it big in a newspaper contest.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (342 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the adventures of the underrated, overlooked, and old-fashioned British police officer, Detective Dangerous Davies.
Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except...
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 12 volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Annie Woodrow is the wife of a pop music inpresario who stands accused of killing her best friend. All the evidence points to Annie as the killer, but DCI Barnaby begins to doubt her guilt. With friend and clinical psychologist Pru Plunkett feeding his suspicions, Barnaby sets out to find the truth.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 12 volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year, the Skimmington Fayre, a medieval ritual, rekindles an age-old battle of the sexes in Broughton. But this year, the men decide to reclaim their dignity and the bodies really start to accumulate.
33) Second sight 2
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three episodes from the television series about D.C.I. Ross Tanner who is desperate to conceal the fact that he's losing his vision. In "Hide and Seek", Tanner is working on the two-year-old murder of a famous violinist in which the only one who may know who killed her is the victim's nine-year-old son. In "Parasomnia", Tanner is investigating a murder in which the murderer claims to have been sleepwalking. In Kingdom of the blind, Tanner is caught...
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 14 volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When local doctor James Kirkwood and Delyth Mostyn, a recent divorcé, decide get married, their families don't exactly celebrate and people begin to show up dead. When a hit-and-run driver kills Dr. Kirkwood's colleague, Barnaby concludes that the murderer actually had Delyth's fiancé in mind, and someone will stop at nothing to prevent their nuptials.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 14 volume disc 4
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Midsomer Holm provides a picturesque setting for the halfway house operated by Barnaby's friend and former colleagues, Gina and Jack Colby. But a brutal murder spoils the village's tranquility, leading Barnaby and Jones to dig into one of its long-buried scandals.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 16 volume disc 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barnaby and Jones attend an exasperating team-building exercise, run by a young and overly ambitious acting chief superintendent. They're released from their misery after an explosion at a trucking company operated by one of the most hated men in Midsomer. The detectives soon realize that the intended victim had many enemies among the townswomen, including his own grandmother.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Owners of an artisan glassworks, the King family harbors relationships of positively Shakespearian complexity. When the enterprise shatters into pieces and it's accountant winds up stabbed, Barnaby digs into rivalries of business and blood-- while DS Jones explores secret Masonic rites.
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