Granada Television.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
[The devil's foot] : Winner of a Mystery Writers of America Award 1989. When Watson insists Ho,mes take a vacation in a small Cornish village, he spends his holiday unraveling the mysterious death of a young woman. [Silver blaze]: A highly prized racehorse disappears on the eve of a big race. [The Bruce Partington plans]: Plans for a secret submarine are found in the pocket of a young man brutally murdered on a railway line leading from the underground....
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is found brutally murdered and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Empty house: It is three years later. Did Sherlock Holmes plunge to his death at the Reichenbach Falls fighting with the fiendish Professor Moriarty? Watson is faced with an unsolved murder, and is lost without the talents of his old partner to help him; until he spots a mysterious visitor in court, listening to testimony about the murdered man. Abbey grange: Who murdered the last of the Brackenstall line, Sir Eustace Brackenstall? Sherlock Holmes...
10) Coyote waits
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charles is from a family with little money. Sebastian's family is wealthy. The two become friends at Oxford. When Sebastian invites his friend to dinner, Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family. After Charles becomes an officer in the British Army he and his company are moved to an English country house that he realizes is Sebastian's family home. Here he discovers memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of...
13) Prime suspect: 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is promoted to Detective Superintendent. Includes three 2-hour episodes: The Lost Child, Inner Circles, and The Scent Of Darkness.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Having been demoted and transferred to the north, D.C.I. Tennison finds herself under-used until she gets a case where a 12-year-old boy confesses to murder. She becomes involved with trying to convict the local crime boss who has proved impossible to touch.
15) Northanger Abbey
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Second stain: Who stole the secret letter from the house of the Secretary for European Affairs? Sherlock Holmes is called to assist in getting the letter back, "to avert a great war". When the one person Holmes believes could have stolen the letter is found murdered, the great detective is led into a tangled web of international intrigue. The six Napoleons: Holmes and Watson are called upon to solve the mystery of why busts of Napoleon are being smashed...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny & Jules, dies onstage in a bingo hall, the apparent victim...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she is not above picking a pocket or two. All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and Moll is soon facing hangman's noose. Special features included.
