Acorn Media (Firm)
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Death on the Nile": A pleasure cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a murder is discovered on board. "Sad Cypress": The solution to a double-murder case appears to be cut and dried, but Poirot's instincts eventually lead him to the real truth. "The Hollow": A weekend retreat where all the guests appear to despise one another finds Poirot hard at work doing what he does best. "Five little pigs": Poirot agrees to help a young woman prove her mother's...
2) Foyle's war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
UK broadcast ed. ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
English Detective Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the home front while he reluctantly sits out on World War II.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 500 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Formats
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
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Clunes is back as the surly, self-centered Dr. Martin Ellingham. In the fifth series, the doctor plots his escape from the idyllic town of Portwenn and its idiosyncratic residents. Includes eight episodes.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Alleyn has the upper crust contacts and manners, but like more modern detectives, he's a bona fide cop. Offers elegant country house settings, complex cases, and a detective who works for Scotland Yard. Agatha Troy is the Inspector's independent and insightful lady friend.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 422 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Producer Brian Eastman has once again matched great material with appealing stars and come up with a winner. Rosemary & Thyme keeps the crimes grisly but the mood light, and makes the settings part of the fun. Rosemary Boxer (Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Ferris) are two women who bond over their midlife setbacks and a mutual talent for gardening and sleuthing. Series Two includes eight episodes set in gardens on the French Riviera and Italy's Ligurian...
13) Case histories.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Formats
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]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (254 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On her first day on the job, rookie detective Anna Travis throws up at a crime scene and faints at a postmortem. Does she have what it takes to succeed in what's still mostly a man's world? Above Suspicion: For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time. The Red Dahlia: A young woman's body is found by the Thames, horribly mutilated and drained of blood.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four funerals and a wedding: Every year, the Skimmington Fayre, a medieval ritual, rekindles an age-old battle of the sexes in Broughton. But this year, the men decide to reclaim their dignity and the bodies really start to accumulate.
Country matters: With the town of Elverton in an uproar over a new supermarket, an environmental consultant hired by the store is found stabbed to death. It turns out the consultant has been consulting with the local...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspector Roderick Alleyn is a Scotland Yard detective whose aristocratic breeding gives him access to the elite and their crimes. This second set of elegant mysteries contains four episodes.
20) Vera
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigaor-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
