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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 312 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies is the odd man out in his small London police station. He cracks the tough cases anyway, with old-fashioned investigative work rather than violent confrontation.
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (646 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the best-selling authors of all time, Georges Simenon is most famous for his more than 100 novels and short stories featuring Chief Inspector Maigret of the Paris police. Concerned more with "why" than "who" Maigret's profound perception of the realities of human behavior and extraordinary psychological insight make him one of fiction's most interesting and unique sleuths.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gentle detective 'Dangerous' Davies is a man out of his time, driven by an old fashioned sense of right and wrong. Davies solves all manner of crimes despite his colleagues constant mocking of his investigative style and even seems to get his marriage back on track, no thanks to the amorous antics of his sidekick Mod.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the the detective himself.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When journalist Rosalind Leigh starts to write a book about a woman found guilty of murdering her mother and sister, she becomes convinced that the woman is hiding something.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 296 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Legendary actress Patricia Routledge returns as 60ish housewife turned gumshoe Hetty Wainthropp in this popular PBS Mystery! series. Includes six episodes, two of which have not aired on PBS.
13) Midsomer murders
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003-]
Physical Desc
DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The killings at badger's drift: An elderly woman dies suddenly after witnessing something unsettling in the woods.
Written in blood: A bestselling novelist is found beaten to death the morning after attending a meeting of a writers circle.
Death of a hollow man: A murder victim is discovered in a lake near where Barnaby is rehearsing for an amateur theatrical production.
Faithful unto death: The beautiful wife of a wealthy businessman has disappeared...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Dance with the dead: A young man's apparent suicide leads Barnaby and his team searching for the man's missing girlfriend and ballroom dance partner. Animal within: When a woman presumed dead in a plane crash visits her uncle's estate three years later, she surprises everyone there, but it's an even greater shock when the...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 441 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Housewife turned gumshoe Hetty Wainthropp is back for another round of solving mysteries. Both steely and motherly, she takes no prisoners and puts on no airs, using her dowdy appearance to blend into her surroundings.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
19 DVDs (approximately 32 hours) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered the home front.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 294 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1, Episode one. Something to treasure: Hetty and Geoffrey head to Cumbria, where a miner's widow enlists them in the search for a missing book penned by her late husband. The widow claims the book was stolen. But is she really after the book--or its map to a cache of precious minerals hidden somewhere inside the mine? -- Episode 2. Family values: When a wealthy client asks Hetty to investigate suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of...
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