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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...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
10) Strong poison
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
12) Have his carcass
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or a political...
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has policed the murderous county for decades, and now he's ready to retire. In these four episodes, Barnaby investigates his final cases before leaving the denizens of Midsomer in the capable hads of his cousin, DCI John Barnaby."--Container.
14) Gaudy night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite. Sauce for the goose: After a visitor dies while touring...
17) Case histories
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
During their weekend spa vacation, Barnaby's wife Joyce discovers a body and Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate; on closing the case, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby makes plans for his future that include his cousin, DCI John Barnaby.
19) Rebus
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
John Hannah stars as Detective Inspector Rebus in these adaptations of the novels by Ian Rankin. D.I. Rebus confronts the underworld and his own personal demons while scouring the streets of Edinburgh investigating a series of deadly crimes.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, at a family gathering, thrice-married baronet Freddy Butler keels over dead, leaving an estate worth killing for.
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