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Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returns with Wallander in the next set of thrilling tales set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. These stories follow Kurt Wallander, a sensitive but brilliant detective, a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life. Beautifully filmed, Wallander is a compelling series featuring an extremely likeable and entirely believable...
Series
Jesse Stone volume prequel : part 1
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following his divorce and the loss of his job as a homicide detective with the LAPD, Jesse Stone travels across the country to Paradise, Massachusetts where he is recruited by the town's board of selectmen to become the new Chief of Police. But things are not quite so heavenly in Paradise, as Stone starts off his first day on the job investigating a domestic abuse case that leads to a money-laundering scheme possibly involving bank manager Hasty Hathaway...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (529 minutes)
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The killings at Badger's Drift: The death of an elderly woman and the persistence of her lifelong friend draw Barnaby into a case that reveals the sordid side of this quaint village. Written in blood: Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy writer, Barnaby discovers that the victim had been living a fictitious life....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While Lynley is suspended, pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing, Havers teams up with a different Detective Inspector, Fiona Knight, to investigate the drowning of a young woman in her car.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lynley and Havers are catapulted into the bizarre world of Internet vice when they investigate the brutal death of Emily Proctor, a young barrister who had been moonlighting for her sister's online porn site.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lynley is reinstated, and he, Havers, and their colleague Detective Constable Winston Nkata are trying to catch a crime boss. But when their star witness is found shot dead at Havers' childhood holiday retreat, she becomes convinced that cracking a twenty-year-odd unsolved murder involving a local child will provide answers to both murders.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After spending some of her compensation money learning Aikido at a retreat in Cornwall, Havers has been invited by Lynley's mother, Lady Asherton, to stay at the family estate. Lynley is also in Cornwall visiting his mother, but avoiding answering any questions about his relationship with Helen. So when horse trainer Jim Fenner, who lives on a neighboring estate, is found hanged in his stable, it is a welcome diversion to delay the inevitable questioning....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the blink of an eye: Lynley and Havers investigate the death of paparazzi photographer Peter Rooker, who is found beaten and shot in London's Soho neighborhood. The mystery leads them all the way to a 1995 massacre in Bosnia.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lynley and Havers are assigned to a new case back in London, following the discovery of a body floating in the Thames. The victim, Eric Ramsey, was a doorkeeper at the House of Lords. On closer inspection, it appears that he has been savagely beaten, having had his hands tied behind his back. Initially, it looks as if the murder may be connected to Ramsey's gambling debts, but when a Clerk at the House of Lords is also murdered, events seem to point...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is Havers first day back at work after being shot, and her first case involves a young woman murdered with a shotgun in rural Suffolk. Though Havers is outwardly stoic, Lynley worries that it will reopen old wounds. When a photography of the murdered woman arguing with a man is sent to the local police station, and a mysterious word is painted on the wall of the crime scene, it seems that someone connected with the case is trying to send them clues....
14) The word of God
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lynley and Havers are called to Smithfields Market, where the body of a man has been found frozen inside a meat truck. The victim is carrying a forged British passport and a parchment covered in Arabic script ... The page turns out to be part of an immensely valuable ancient golden Koran, more than enough motive for murder. -- container.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (360 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Love, life and murder. Just a few of Inspector Lynleys mysteries.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries feature the most celebrated British detective duo in years: Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small). Over the course of more than 10 intriguing Elizabeth George novels, beginning with A Great Deliverance, Lynley and Havers have won millions of loyal fans. Its no mystery why.
Decidedly uppercrust detective...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2012].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In A Scandal in Belgravia, Sherlock gets embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, and finds himself employing every one of his remarkable skills to survive as the unlikely duo square off in a battle of wits and perhaps emotions. The Hounds of Baskerville whisks the increasingly popular detective and Watson to the wilds of Dartmoor, and face to face with the supernatural lurking in the eerie landscape.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 503 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
19) Li'l Quinquin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (206 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
This absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of the English Channel in northern France. The bumbling and mumbling Captain Van der Weyden is assigned to investigate the crime, but he has to contend with a young prankster, the mischievous Quinquin, as he proceeds to investigate the case.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, DCS Christopher Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.
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