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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
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes from the British detective series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, a policeman who approaches his cases with a dry wit and sense of moral justice, as he hunts down criminals in Denton, England. In episode 1, DI Frost must deal with a desperate mother and solve a 20 year old missing persons case following the discovery of a teenage girl's remains. In episode 2, Frost tries to find out why a clown is dead and help find a man...
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 16 volume disc 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barnaby and Jones discover that Midsomer County is home to a secret pagan cult after one of its more prominent members is murdered. Suspicion initially falls on the author of a book alleging that the sect's rituals are merely the product of drink and an overactive imagination. But soon it seems that all of the members of the Magic Circle have something to hide.
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
Agatha Christie Marple. Series 4 volume 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Rex Fortescue dies while sitting at his desk in the City, it's determined that he was in fact poisoned. Miss Marple takes a particular interest in the case when her former maid Gladys, now working in the Fortescue household, is also murdered.
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.
Series
Agatha Christie Marple. Series 4 volume 4
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While visiting her friend Marjorie Attfield, Miss Marple learns that her son Bobby had recently found a body, identified as a Mr. Pritchard, on the cliff side. The key to solving the mystery of Pritchard's last words to Bobby as he lay dying: "Why didn't they ask Evans?".
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married woman looks to separate from her husband; a young man looks to find out more about the paranormal; a séance predicts sudden death and danger; a woman takes a job as a decoy for the visiting duchess, who is rumored to be the target of a potential assassination attempt; a man sets out on a road trip after hitting it big in a newspaper contest.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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
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.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 14 volume disc 4
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Midsomer Holm provides a picturesque setting for the halfway house operated by Barnaby's friend and former colleagues, Gina and Jack Colby. But a brutal murder spoils the village's tranquility, leading Barnaby and Jones to dig into one of its long-buried scandals.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Owners of an artisan glassworks, the King family harbors relationships of positively Shakespearian complexity. When the enterprise shatters into pieces and it's accountant winds up stabbed, Barnaby digs into rivalries of business and blood-- while DS Jones explores secret Masonic rites.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 12 volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 ladies and definitely not about the environment.
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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