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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 671 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 184 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Full screen; [1 disc].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 204 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Tennison has proven herself and won her colleagues' grudging respect. When she is assigned to head a murder inquiry in the African Caribbean community, it seems further evidence that her star is on the rise."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen; [1 disc].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Tennison has been transferred to a new station and a new assignment: getting prostitutes off the streets of Soho. But when a 17-year-old rent boy is burned to death, her superiors aren't keen on her investigating the murder."--Container.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation. Is he getting inside information?
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen; [1 disc].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some, Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Full screen; [1 disc].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 207 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Tennison seizes the opportunity to head a murder investigation--something she should have done long ago, had she not been passed over by her male superiors time and again. With a suspect already identified and her own team openly hostile, she uncovers errors and conflicting facts that point to a coverup within the force."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of this 12-part British drama series was Detective Chief Jack Mowbray, played by Ross Kemp. When his district was invaded by an elusive serial killer, Mowbray was brow beaten by his boss, DCS Henderson (Kenneth Cranham), to catch the murderer yesterday, if not sooner. As the unknown villain continued to cut a bloody swath through the moors, the overworked Mowbray's personal life suffered mightily. Series 1 follows the hunt for a serial...
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