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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.
22) 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.
23) Murder by death
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An invitation to dinner--and a murder-- is sent to five world famous detectives by Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), an eccentric millionaire living in an isolated, gloomy estate in northern California.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Linnet Doyle steals and marries her best friend's fiance, the best friend gets her revenge by hounding the newlyweds. On a pleasure cruise down the Nile, the widely despised Mrs. Doyle is found murdered. Thank goodness Poirot is along for the ride.
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.
26) 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
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 254 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seattle consumer affairs TV reporter Ruby Herring (Taylor Cole) turned her investigative instincts on the homicides in her hometown--to the chagrin of local plainclothesman Jake Killian (Stephen Huszar)--in this series of Hallmark mysteries. Home for her sister's wedding, Ruby noses around when the affair's cake baker turns up dead, in "Silent Witness" (2019). When a local health food doyenne's a no-show for her interview, Ruby suspects foul play,...
28) A perfect murder
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful Wall Street power broker tries to get his wife's lover to murder her.
29) Enemy
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
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.
31) Horsemen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of his wife, a hardened police detective grows increasingly distant from his two young sons at home, while at work he is thrust into an investigation of perverse serial killings rooted in the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
33) 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.
35) Double jeopardy
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Libby Parsons discovers that the husband she was convicted of murdering staged his own death and framed her for the crime.
38) The gift
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Annie has 'the Gift'. Some fear her, others claim she's a witch. But now, a murder has ben committed and only she can solve it. On a twisted trail of open infidelity and jealous rage, she sees visions that will haunt her and discovers a truth that will tear the town apart"--
39) Suspicion
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
40) Mulholland Dr
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful woman riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingénue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
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