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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
10 paperbacks, 1 folder with supplementary materials or online supplementary materials ; in canvas bag or container
Description
After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Newly appointed security consultant Nate Colgan finds himself at a crossroads in a power war involving a mysterious rival gang and the mother of his child, while a highly skilled detective inspector investigates local uprisings to prevent a full-scale organizational war.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DI Annika Strandhed, the speedboat-driving head of Glasgow's newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit, juggles baffling cases and a rebellious teenage daughter. Joined by DS Michael McAndrews, Annika's old colleague; DC Blair Ferguson, the forensic brains behind the unit; and DS Tyrone Clarke, the new cop at the station.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (559 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DCI Matthew Burke and his team of cops investigate murders in Glasgow. Glasgow's finest take on the city's worst crimes in Taggart, a gripping cop drama with a hard-edged Scottish burr. Witty scripts and deadpan humor give this quintessentially Scottish series universal appeal.
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Funeral rites: Taggart tracks a ruthless killer in an investigation tinged with undertones of voodoo and black magic when a burnt corpse is found in an unused railway tunnel. Cold blood: a wife pumps six bullets into her cheating husband's body and Taggart perceives an open-and-shut case-- until the pathologist finds that...
9) Shuggie Bain
Author
Description
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front...
10) Ratcatcher
Series
Criterion collection volume 162
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor adolescent in Glasgow tries to cope with life in poverty.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed and the Marine Homicide Unit return to solve more brutal and unexplained murders that wash up in Scotland's waters. The team is challenged as their dynamics shift, pushing them to rapidly adapt as they encounter murders more complex than ever before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks down a seam of corruption that runs through all levels of Glaswegian society.
13) Laidlaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered on Glasgow Green, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men gangland villains and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city's shadows.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may finally give Detective Michael Fisher the chance he need...
15) Taggart: Set 3
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 551 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This award-winning television drama follows four cops on the streets of the Britain's most menacing cities. Detective Burke, Ross, Reid, and Fraser make a formidable team against Glasgow's criminals, from drug dealers and blackmailers to gangsters and pimps. Armed with determination and intuition, they pursue justice in an often dark and dangerous world."--Container.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Knife-edge, body parts wrapped in tartan blankets put Taggart and Livingstone on a trail fraught with dead ends to catch a killer. In Death call, a woman's body is found floating in the river Clyde and while all the evidence points to one young man, Taggart is not convinced he's guilty. In The killing philosophy, Taggart heads the hunt for the masked "Glasgow Bowman", a psychopath whose terrifying attacks seem to lack motive.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Killer, DCI Jim Taggart and graduate constable Peter Livingstone team up to nab a serial killer when one young blonde woman after another turns up dead. In Dead ringer, Taggart's investigation leads to a possible miscarriage of justice when the skeletal remains of a dismembered female are found. In Murder in season, an opera singer returns to Glasgow to perform, but she becomes the main suspect when her husband's new girlfriend is found murdered....
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
316, 10, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes...
19) The hanging shed
Author
Series
Douglas Brodie novels volume 1
Formats
Description
A read-it-in-one-sitting, action-packed, gritty, and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of 1946 Glasgow
The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Everyone thought Hugh was dead, shot down in the war. Perhaps it would have been kinder if...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass, two friends from Glasgow's desperate fringes, become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades: debt collection. While one rises quickly through the ranks, the other falls prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle, accumulating steep debts of his own. Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business--Marty Jones, ruthless pimp; Potty Cruickshank, member of the old guard; and Billy...
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