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English
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"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...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 272 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The youngest, most attractive British sleuths on TV return to crack wise while they crack open six new cases. Detective Sergeant Scribbs and Inspector Ash sparkle as bickering, bantering crime-solvers.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005, ©2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 294 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two amateur sleuths (who start a gardening business together), dig up plots and conspiracies and use their investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In "Ghosts of Christmas past," the Villiers family has gathered to celebrate Christmas exactly nine years after Ferdy Villiers committed suicide. When another member of the family dies mysteriously, Barnaby and Scott find they must investigate the past as well as the present.
Publisher
Distributed by MHz Networks
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Based on the best-selling crime fiction of Helene Tursten. Irene Huss is a former European ju-jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit. Her husband, Krister, is a successful chef, and luckily for Irene, he gladly shoulders a fair share of the household tasks. At the Violent Crimes Unit in Gothenburg, Irene encounters a wide range of criminal minds from international serial killers to psychotic...
Publisher
Acorn Media Group Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Publisher
Distributed by MHz Networks
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his beautiful long-distance girlfriend and his constant flirtation...
15) 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.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 224 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jericho is haunted by memories of his father, whose murder he witnessed as a boy. He is obsessed with his work at Scotland Yard. Yet, he finds himself drawn to his beautiful French neighbor Juliette - a prostitute with a tortured past.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In "The straw woman," when a curate dies tragically at a festival revival, some villagers of Midsomer Parva suspect black magic. Barnaby and Scott unravel a centuries-old mystery, complicated by Scott's attraction to a schoolteacher who has been branded a witch by the village.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (646 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the best-selling authors of all time, Georges Simenon is most famous for his more than 100 novels and short stories featuring Chief Inspector Maigret of the Paris police. Concerned more with "why" than "who" Maigret's profound perception of the realities of human behavior and extraordinary psychological insight make him one of fiction's most interesting and unique sleuths.
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