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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. While communism and prohibition are debated in speakeasies, society will never be the same, and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Season One, Pearl juggled her commitments to the restaurant the eponymous Whitstable Pearl with her ₁side hustle₂ as a PI. In Season Two, Pearl prioritizes her detective work and transition from being a chef who solves crimes to a full-time investigator who just happens to own a restaurant. Pearl's cases overlap with DCI Mike McGuire's police investigations. Their relationship is charged by a determination to outdo each other, and a fiery mutual...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hetty is a 60-year-old housewife, a late bloomer, who sets up shop as a private eye to supplement her husband's meager pension. With moral authority, salt-of-the-earth candor, and a fully-loaded handbag, Hetty dispenses hard-boiled justice and motherly empathy in equally satisfying doses. Geoffrey, a destitute teenager, becomes Hetty's trusted and able sidekick. Her husband, Robert, also lends a hand.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When determined detective Alexa Crowe brings her unique brand of investigation to an unsuspecting New Zealand, she quickly finds herself entangled in compelling new murder mysteries centered on fascinating and dangerous characters who will challenge, flirt with and frustrate her, and sometimes threaten everything she cares about. Being back in her hometown brings its own brand of difficulties as she has to confront the family she's avoided for decades....
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new season, while detective Alexa Crowe wrangles her family and friends in her beautiful hometown of Auckland, the show will always focus on compelling episodic mysteries told with humor and heart. And this new series will feature ten new cases that pit Alexa against fascinating, powerful, and surprising suspects everyone from eccentric billionaires to grieving florists, and from tango dancers to fiery fashionistas. The only thing they have...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher, a glamorous lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. In 'Murder under the Mistletoe," Phryne's Christmas in July turns deadly when trapped inhabitants at a snowed-in mountain lodge find themselves being killed off according to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Stunning locations at home and abroad provide the backdrop for this hit British mystery series. From their former careers as a university plant biologist and a police officer, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme bring unique investigative talents to their horticultural and human mysteries. Their unobtrusive presence in the garden gives them unique access to secrets other detectives might miss--and that murderers would rather not reveal.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town's tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the parents of one of the victims to find their son's killer, Veronica is drawn into an eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave's wealthy elites who would like to put an end to the bacchanalia against the working class that relies on the cash influx.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Honeymoon, honeymurder: While on a romantic pre-honeymoon at the lake, Aurora & Nick discover the body of a man washed up on shore with a fatal gunshot wound to his chest But, as they get closer to finding out what really happened, danger begins to knock on the doorstep of their beautiful lakeside cabin, putting both their lives at risk.
Till death do us part: Just days before Aurora's wedding, a decades-old skeleton is discovered buried beneath...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city₂s only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Full of lively wit, surprising twists, and gorgeous period detail, the 1960s-set spinoff to the beloved Australian mystery series returns with new adventures for Phryne Fisher's plucky niece, Peregrine. Now established as a private detective, Peregrine works out of the Melbourne Adventuress Club with assistance from tough former spy Birdie Birnside and brilliant biologist Violetta Fellini. With her partner in crime-solving, Detective James Steed,...
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