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Pub. Date
c2003, 2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
2) Charade
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : col., sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a Parisienne finds her husband murdered and four men after her to retrieve a quarter-million dollars in stolen gold, a handsome stranger comes to her rescue--but is he hero, spy, or murderer?
Pub. Date
c2002, 1952
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ford is Michael BLake, a former paratrooper who returns to France to find himself-and a medieval gauntlet that a Nazi art dealer had stolen from a village church. Suddenly, Blake finds a dead body in his Paris hotle room and both the art dealer and the police are after him. He flees with his girlfriend to the south of France and into a web of intrigue.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The small, quiet town of St. Michael hasn't had a suspicious death in the last 30 years, until now. As strange murders disturb the peace, two detectives must solve a deadly game where the myth behind it unravels the town's urban legend and secrets too close to home. Detective Tamara Fischer is a logical, no-nonsense woman, but she hasn't been sleeping since the murders started and there are no leads. Her new partner, Detective Lukas Wiles,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (843 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hailed as Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by critics and fans alike, P.D. James is one of the most celebrated mystery writers of all-time. From the diabolical to the macabre, this 'essential collection' presents her most compelling film adaptations."
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (843 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hailed as Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by critics and fans alike, P.D. James is one of the most celebrated mystery writers of all-time. From the diabolical to the macabre, this 'essential collection' presents her most compelling film adaptations."
11) Last will
Formats
Description
Hayden Emery has it all; she just married the man of her dreams, the handsome and wealthy Frank Emery. Hayden's ideal world soon begins to crumble. Her new brothers-in-law think Hayden is a gold digger and are not happy about the union. When Frank changes his will to make Hayden his sole beneficiary, it's the final straw, and they're not going down without a fight. Frank mysteriously dies and the evidence indicates that Hayden is the killer. Based...
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For years a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangness and finds that Holmes is falling in love.
14) The big sleep
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min. + 116 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's young daughter from her indiscretions, and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her elder sister.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival in love. When Poirot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to cut and dried.
16) The best offer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 204 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
19) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
These four lavish productions are all-new adaptations of Christie classics and feature Geraldine McEwan starring in: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, A Murder is Announced, and 4:50 From Paddington.
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