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English
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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge killings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth Chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
He's gentle, old-fashioned, and decent; nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies (Peter Davison) the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, accident prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with the help of his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
7) Miss Marple
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1987-1992
Language
English
Description
Jane Marple is vacationing in Barbados when a string of dead bodies forces the detective back to work. An American movie star comes to Miss Marple's village to shoot a picture. Murders among the cast and crew bring Miss Marple into a web of jealousies. A young couple buys a house. Soon after they move in, they are haunted by visions of a body. Jane Marple comes and unravels the past of the house to stop any more murders. A friend of Miss Marple's...
8) Vera
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigaor-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young secretary of a multinational corporation falls to her death in London and a member of the Home Guard is shot to death in the south of England. Finding how these deaths are related and how business and politics can be deadly Foyle finds who killed these people and why.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a production company invades Magna Manor to film a new version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the off-camera conflicts among cast and crew prove almost as deep and bloody as those in the script. Barnaby delves into their sordid real-life histories to end a murderer's reign of terror on the set.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Midsomer Holm provides a picturesque setting for the halfway house operated by Barnaby's friend and former colleagues, Gina and Jack Colby. But a brutal murder spoils the village's tranquility, leading Barnaby and Jones to dig into one of its long-buried scandals.
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