Frank Gruber
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott) washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Lorre) takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Greenstreet). But as Leyden zeroes...
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death. Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett's "A Volume of Poe," a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's "The Adventure of the Three R's," the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 Blu-rays (approximately 16 hr., 14 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection includes 14 classic films starring Basil Rathbone as the legendary Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as the venerable Dr. John H. Watson.
6) Backlash
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In post-Civil War Arizona, Jim Slater hopes to prove that his down-and-out father was not involved in a gold robbery. To prove this, Slater has to find the money, which is also the goal of Karyl Orton, the widow of one of the thieves.