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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gwenda Reed has come from New Zealand to find a home for herself and her new husband. She settles on a small South Coast town, Dilmouth, but feels she actually remembers the house. A visit to a London play brings back a terrifying vision of a woman's body lying in the hall, and another member of the theatre party, Miss Jane Marple, comes into the picture.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter.
Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (463 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and his partner, DS Charlie Nelson, team up with Danish detective Birgitte Poulsen to investigate the poisoning death of the head of Calder's Biscuits during a business trip to Copenhagen.
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (7 hours, 30 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 195 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
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the grave: Barnaby and Troy investigate a series of vandalism and unearthly activities at the local museum.
Blood will out: Barnaby is enlisted to keep the peace when the arrival of two feuding clans of travelers disrupt the tranquility of Martyr Warren. Local magistrate and Falklands War veteran Hector Bridges gets fired up about the interlopers and unwisely marches into the fray.
Strangler's wood: Barnaby's investigation of a murdered woman...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximatley 300 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The emotionally charged finale of the acclaimed bilingual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clemence Poesy for the last outing of the unlikely Anglo-French partnership. Set amidst mid-Brexit hysteria, an escalating refugee crisis, and the increasing threat of terror from disenfranchised, exiled souls on whom society has turned its back.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter. Delightful in a murderously charming way.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room, until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large, Professor James Moriarty, and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany, and finally...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 398 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clouds of Witness--Death hits close to home when Lord Peter's future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter's brother. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club--When a member of the prominent Bellona Club dies on the same day as his sister, Lord Peter must determine who will inherit a sizeable fortune. Bonus features included.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tainted fruit: Death threats against beautiful but spoiled Melissa Townsend bring Barnaby and Troy to the affluent village of Midsomer Malham. Some villagers blame her for causing the death of an elderly villager by refusing to fix the leaking roof of his cottage, a family property under her management.
Ring out your dead: Just before a big competition, someone starts killing members of the church bell-ringing team.
Murder on St. Malley's Day: After...
19) Sherlock Holmes
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After finally catching serial killer and occult 'sorcerer' Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. After his execution, Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with Watson's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the determined detective must unravel the clues that will...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
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 contemporary British television mysteries. The green man: Troy passes his inspector's exam and is moving on, but not before one more challenging case with Barnaby in Midsomer Worthy. Bad tidings: Dan Scott, Barnaby's new partner, gets a baptism by fire with a case in Midsomer Mallow that implicates Cully and her old schoolmates. The Fisher King: Barnaby and Scott follow...
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