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Series
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A cat burglar called the Creeper stalks the homes of Causton, putting residents on high alert. But more than jewelry and electronics are at stake, as the long-secrets of the aristocratic Chettham family start to come to light. The Chetthams have staved off financial ruin by selling their home to their friend Jack Filby. When a man is suffocated and his valuables stolen at a birthday party hosted by Filby, it seems the Creeper has turned killer. Barnaby...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 468 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chief Inspector Boyd and the rest of the Cold Case Unit reopen the files on more unsolved crimes. But working closely together, under pressure to get results, the team starts to crack. Now, Mel, Frankie, Spencer and Grace will have to find confidence in their intense, moody Chief.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some, Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the blink of an eye: Lynley and Havers investigate the death of paparazzi photographer Peter Rooker, who is found beaten and shot in London's Soho neighborhood. The mystery leads them all the way to a 1995 massacre in Bosnia.
Natural causes: While Lynley is suspended, pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing, Havers teams up with a different Detective Inspector, Fiona Knight, to investigate the drowning of a young woman in her car.
One...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 8 hr., 20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Private lives: A woman is discovered in critical condition in a quiet village on the outskirts of Denton, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run incident. Frost's investigation exposes the secret life of a rural England corner.
Keys to the car: Frost investigates a dapper con man with a taste for golf at posh clubs and other people's cars, especially after the body of a drug dealer is found in the trunk.
Line of fire: DI Frost investigates the murder...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 460 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
Harm done: Detective Chief Inspector Wexford faces growing public unrest over the release of a pedophile, an odd series of abductions, and the disappearance of a wealthy couple's daughter from her bedroom.
The fallen curtain: Abducted briefly as a boy,...
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
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hercule Poirot accompanies an archeological expedition searching for the skull of John the Baptist in the Syrian Desert. What the team actually finds is a more recent corpse: the body of Lady Boynton, wife of the expedition leader Lord Boynton.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 7 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dame Christie's most popular character, prim and proper Miss Jane Marple, is adored worldwide by mystery fans for her razor-sharp mind, intuitive understanding of criminal behavior, and trademark knitting needles. Body in the library: The body of a glamorous blonde is found in the library at Gossington Hall and Dolly Bantry needs to clear her husband's name - so she calls her dear friend, Jane Marple. A murder is announced: When an intriguing ad in...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr., 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Penny for the guy: A manpower shortage and a rash of child kidnapped for ransom force a vacationing Frost back to work partnering with beautiful but ambitious DS Liz Maud.
House calls: Jack is in charge of the case of a three month old corpse found in the coal bin of an abandoned farm house.
Appendix man: Hazel Wallace returns from her training as the new Detective Sergeant. Supt. Mullett assigns her to sorting the mess left behind by DI Frost while...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agatha and the truth of murder: In 1926, with her writing in crisis and her personal life in tatters, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
Agatha and the curse of Ishtar: 1928: it has been two years siince the sensation caused by her eleven-day disappearance and Agatha Christie arrives in Baghdad seeking culture and peace. What she finds a Max, an attractive young archaeologits with a bullet wound.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (322 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Distressed young heiress Norma Restarick comes to see Hercule Poirot about 'a murder she might have committed.' The detective consults an old acquaintance, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, who lives in the same building as the young woman and her two roommates. When Norma's childhood nanny is found dead, apparently by suicide, Poirot believes he has identified the victim. Next he must deduce the killer, while Norma's family fears for her sanity"--Container....
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