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English
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Set in 1943, Maggie Hope, an American stationed in England who works for MI5, goes to Los Angeles, where Gloria Hutton, the fiancée of RAF pilot John Sterling, has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool. The police are quick to label the deceased a "hophead" and rule her death an accident, but Sterling refuses to believe their assessment and asks Maggie to investigate. Maggie's inquiry, which takes her to film sets, nightclubs, and other Hollywood...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals, westerns, and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star--except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand, who'd rather study them in the night sky. She's already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves is stability. But when Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack- or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely,...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
, 1993, 2011.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
6 DVD (17 hours, 25 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series explores the judicial system from the point-of-view of police and prosecutors, the defense team, judges, jurors, and the defendants themselves. It contains all 22 episodes of the series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[Vaudeville actress turned Hollywood insider] Jessie's thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites her to a party. Shes even more delighted to run into a face from her past at that party. But the following day, Jessie learns that sometime in the wee hours of the morning both her old friend and Bruno Heilmann were brutally murdered. She's devastated, but with her skill as an actress, access to the wardrobes and resources of a film...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, 1946. The war is over, and Clara Berg spends her days shelving reels as a vault girl at Silver Pacific Studios. All her dreams are pinned on getting a break in film editing. When she returns a reel of film to storage one night, Clara stumbles across the lifeless body of a woman in Vault 5. The costume, the makeup, the ash-blond hair are unmistakable: it's Babe Bannon, A-list star. And it looks like murder. As the Silver Blonde murder ignites...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 1,044 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mystery writer turned amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is back with another season of solving crimes and finding the clues that nobody even knew were there.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, 2005.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
6 DVD (approximately 16 hours) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 booklet (folded-out : color, illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
In the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, California, the rich and powerful make the rules. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart, fearless 17-year-old apprentice private investigator solving the town's toughest mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxi, 234 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade--immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon--and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex...
Series
Publisher
Milestone Films & Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (71 min.) : silent, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus, the mysterious sky pirate, is a master of disguise and the scourge of millionaires, banks, and the police. Lowered in a gondola by her henchmen, Filibus steals from the rich and then mysteriously vanishes into the clouds. However, with the famed Detective Kutt-Hendy on her trail, Filibus must up her game. Posing as the Baroness Troixmond, the jewel thief volunteers to help the local police catch...
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...
14) Twin Peaks
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Definitive gold box edition.
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1,501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman as they try to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
29 DVDs (2,760 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the homefront during World War II and, after retiring, begins working for MI5 in the early days of the Cold War.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
Publisher
Cookie Jar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (795 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Busytown is an enchanting place that is abuzz with energy and life. Young audiences love to sing and laugh along as Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm make their way through the day. Always concerned for each other, the residents of Busytown make time for a song and a smile.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
Français
Description
A man is convinced he met an enigmatic woman the previous year at the same location, and perhaps had a flirtation. A second man, possibly the woman's lover or husband, repeatedly intimidates the first man. Their relations unfold through flashback shards that never quite fit into place, their lives a hall of mirrors that never reveal a true self.
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet (approximately 1 hr., 29 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
Paddington was given a torch by Mr. Gruber. He was practicing with it one evening, when he had a shock. Every time he flashed the torch out of the window, he received the same signal back. The light seemed to be coming from Mr. Brown's greenhouse. The next day Paddington decided to test his detective's disguise, but he is immediately recognized by Mrs. Brown. He investigates Mr. Brown's greenhouse and sees a large marrow, which he tests for fingerprints...
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