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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Armed only with razor-sharp wit, Poirot unravels the intricate plots concocted by Dame Agatha Christie, the mother of the modern mystery story. Ablaze with the elegance of its 1930s setting, the series also stars Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
David Suchet plays the brilliant Belgian sleuth in these three stories that brim with period details and deliciously clever wit. Starring Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings, Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp and Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Match wits with Ellery Queen in all 22 episodes of this classic NBC series following the exploits of the famed writer as he assists his father, Inspector Richard Queen, in solving the mysteries that baffle the New York City police force.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Delivers more hard-hitting drama in these final episodes from the hit series. Follows each case from the scene of the crime to the jury's verdict, portraying with uncompromising realism the professional and personal pressures that detectives endure.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Oxford's favorite detectives Lewis and Hathaway return for the eighth and final series of the hit series. Investigating the city's most complex and intriguing crimes, Lewis clashes with the new Chief Superintendent, who questions his traditional approach. Will Lewis decide to call time on his policing career? Meanwhile, Hathaway is forced to confront his past.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In season six of this gritty British crime thriller, grumpy old-school copper Andy Dalziel and his well-mannered university educated partner Peter Pascoe, face more perplexing cases: The death of a schoolboy, the mysterious murder of a Sikh woman, the unexplained killing of a solicitor, and the unusual appearance of a skeleton in a former mining town. On top of all this, Pascoe's wife and daughter are now in America, so the odd couple find themselves...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when an...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Using data siphoned off the U.S. intelligence agencies' threat matrix, information not related to terrorism, but rather violent crimes of a personal nature, during each episode, the former CIA agent and his enigmatic partner identify a 'person of interest' and set about solving the mystery of the impending crime. Tapping into the world's Big Brother-like surveillance network, the shadowy duo knows that something bad is going to happen; it's their...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Red John is dead. Or is he? The season is following on last season's explosive finale. California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic is obsessed with finding Red John, the serial killer who murdered his family. Jane learns the true price of revenge and must deal with the fallout from his actions of the previous season.
20) Vexed: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases. Includes three episodes.
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