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Language
English
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Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie. Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Down-to-earth single mum and restaurant owner Pearl (Kerry Goldman, After Life) is now an established PI in her English coastal town of Whitstable. Her cases often overlap with the police investigations conducted by gruff DCI Mike McGuire (Howard Charles, Shadow and Bone), but their relationship is charged by a determination to outdo each other. Six months after the breakdown of their fledgling romance, they have each found her partners: funny and...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A ten part detective series from the BBC about an oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway. Investigating crime in Stratford-upon-Avon, the duo quickly discover all is not as peaceful as it seems in this little theatre town. --
Publisher
Wgbh Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Sacrifice: Novice private investigator Cordelia Gray investigates the death of a young man who appears to have committed suicide for no obvious reason, and, following one of her mentor's rules, uses every possible means to get to know him, going so far as to move into his cottage and sleep in his bed. In doing so, will she, too, become a victim?" --
"A last embrace: Employed by a woman who wants to use Cordelia Gray as bait to gather evidence against...
Language
English
Description
Hound of the Baskervilles: A savage beast lurks on England's moors, feeding on the flesh of the heirs of Baskerville Hall. Sherlock Holmes must track down the beast before it sinks its fangs into the newest lord of the manor.
Without a clue: Dr. John Watson is secretly a crime-solving genius, but to protect his reputation as a physician, he hires a bumbling actor to play the part of the fictional Sherlock Holmes. When Watson disappears, the inept...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The delightful Ashley Jensen (Catastrophe) stars as unlikely private detective Agatha Raisin, who uncovers killers in the Cotswolds in this British-village mystery. In Series Three, Agatha opens a PI agency to uncover the killers lurking in her sleepy Cotswold village, with help from her friend Roy and paramour James.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hetty is a 60-year-old housewife, a late bloomer, who sets up shop as a private eye to supplement her husband's meager pension. With moral authority, salt-of-the-earth candor, and a fully-loaded handbag, Hetty dispenses hard-boiled justice and motherly empathy in equally satisfying doses. Geoffrey, a destitute teenager, becomes Hetty's trusted and able sidekick. Her husband, Robert, also lends a hand.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his frien John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicius younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiance. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the novels by Julie Wassmer, this mystery series follows big-hearted restaurant owner Pearl Nolan, who sets up a local detective agency in the English seaside town of Whitstable after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She's joined by Detective Mike McGuire, who comes from London to investigate a case." --
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