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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 342 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny & Jules, dies onstage in a bingo hall, the apparent victim...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling with his own demons, returns with two distinctive, thrilling crime stories. Devastated by the brutal murder of his wife, John Luther returns to policing in a different world. His old unit has gone and he's working in the newly created Serious and Serial unit, headed by former police complaints officer Martin Schenk. Luther quickly gathers together his team, rescuing his old partner Detective Justin...
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sleeping murder: When Giles and Gwenda Reed move into their dream house in a seaside resort Gwenda is haunted by the vision of a body in the hall. Miss Marple uses her keen intuition to solve the murder of Gwenda's stepmother that took place in the house while Gwenda was living there during her childhood. 4:50 from Paddington: On her way to visit Miss Marple, Elspeth McGillicuddy glimpses a man strangling a woman on a passing train. Police fail to...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This 2 disc set includes season 7 and season 8 of 'A touch of Frost'. Award-winning British actor, David Jason, is Jack Frost, a no-nonsense detective whose unorthodox methods fuel the tension between him and others.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 460 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
Harm done: Detective Chief Inspector Wexford faces growing public unrest over the release of a pedophile, an odd series of abductions, and the disappearance of a wealthy couple's daughter from her bedroom.
The fallen curtain: Abducted briefly as a boy,...
Author
Series
Twin Peaks (Mark Frost) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years. The Secret History of Twin Peaks enlarges the world of the original series, placing the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into a vastly layered, wide-ranging history, beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark and ending with the shocking events that closed the finale."--provided by Amazon.com.
12) Collision
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a major accident leaves two dead, two critically wounded, and the surviving victims' lives changed forever, the father of one of the victims files a suit against the police department. Detective Inspector John Tolin must come to terms with his own past, and with his partner in the investigation if he has any hope of untangling the carnage, and understanding what caused the accident that threw so many lives together.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brilliant, relentless and sometimes exasperating, James Kavanagh, Q.C. will push to extremes to see justice servied--even as his professional triumphs mask a private life at times more troubled than those of his clients.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The most eligible bachelor in London, Lord St. Simon, has just married a wealthy American woman. The young couple's wedding day turns to tragedy when an unwelcome guest arrives at the wedding breakfast and the bride disappears. Sherlock Holmes is plagued with terrible nightmares, which cause him to regard the plight of Lord St. Simon with contempt. Will Holmes take the case?
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful young woman seeks the help of Holmes and Watson when the mysterious benefactor who has been sending her a pearl each year since her father disappeared wants to meet her. Involved are a priceless hoard of Indian treasure and a murderer, whose trademark is "the sign of four."
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (ca. 1496 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson before them, the brilliant but curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his streetwise sidekick Archie Goodwin are crime's greatest nemeses. With Nero preferring to solve crimes at home amid his orchid collection, it is Archie who does the legwork about town to allow Wolfe to unravel the most confounding crimes. Together the duo cracks cases of murder, deception, blackmail, and more, resulting in an unforgettable confection of mystery,...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1089 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Reunite with Jim Rockford, the quintessential antihero detective, in all 22 season three episodes of the action-packed, five-time Emmy award-winning mystery series The Rockford files. James Garner stars as the wisecracking ex-con-turned-private-eye whose approach to crime is cooler than his sleek Pontiac Firebird and more casual than his mobile home in Malibu. Filled with wry humor, chilling suspense and engaging mysteries, this five-disc collection...
18) Inspector Lewis
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death in 2000 of his eponymous mentor in Inspector Morse, Sergeant Lewis was promoted to Inspector and took a two-year sabbatical in the British Virgin Isles. Newly widowed, he now returns to Oxford and soon finds himself in charge of his own murder case. But it is noted that Morse made on an earlier case which help Lewis solve his case.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Cordially invited to The Hollow for a weekend get-together, Hercule Poirot arrives just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the dead body of her husband. Though it seems obvious she has killed her wayward spouse, Poirot doesn't believe things are so simple, especially when all the guests seem to loathe each other. Love, deceit, mystery, and death -- rest assured Poirot will get to the heart of the matter."
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