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A farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear chiefly upon the situations and the lines. It so happens that this farce contains more clever lines, puns, epigrams, and deft repartees than any other of modern times, but these are after all accessory....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A stolen Hindu diamond, the Moonstone, works its curse after being stolen from it's shrine. Just before Rachel's birthday, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her to wear. The jewel goes missing and Rachel believes that Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A journalist named Daniel arrives to deliver the news that Emma has been left some money. There's a substantial sum to be claimed if Emma can prove her right to the money and there's a rags to riches story in it for Daniel's newspaper. As Robert and Emma contemplate their change in fortunes, Laura, who is fascinated to meet a real writer, shows Daniel around Lark Rise.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 4teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a production company invades Magna Manor to film a new version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the off-camera conflicts among cast and crew prove almost as deep and bloody as those in the script. Barnaby delves into their sordid real-life histories to end a murderer's reign of terror on the set.
6) Shot at dawn
Series
Midsomer murders volume Set fifteen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A nine-decade rivalry between the Hammond and Hicks families turns violent after a dishonored soldier's name is added to the World War I memorial in Midsomer Parva. When the Hicks patriarch is shot dead, suspicion naturally falls back onto the Hammonds. As the investigation proceeds, however, it appears that the two families have much more in common than they originally believed.
7) Bad tidings
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 7
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Dan Scott arrives from London to work with Barnaby, expecting an easy time on a rural beat, but is thrown straight into a murder investigation in Midsomer Mallow. A noise heard near the scene of Fiona Thompson's bloodstained body leads police to suspect an odd-job man. But when the murder toll rises, Barnaby becomes concerned for his daughter Cully, who is organizing a 10-year school reunion.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 4teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
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
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2009.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.
11) William & Mary
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, c2004
Language
English
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two recently-widowed men come to terms with the deaths of their wives. Reggie Conyngham-Jervis is a wealthy ex-fighter pilot. Roy Southgate is a retired milkman. Both are widowed on the same night. Now this 'odd couple' decide to overlook their differences and move in together. At first the two become friends, until their unlikely relationship is threatened by the arrival of Liz Franks, an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
14) Days of misrule
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 6teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Barnaby and Jones attend an exasperating team-building exercise, run by a young and overly ambitious acting chief superintendent. They're released from their misery after an explosion at a trucking company operated by one of the most hated men in Midsomer. The detectives soon realize that the intended victim had many enemies among the townswomen, including his own grandmother.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
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...
17) The black book
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 7teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The detectives investigate a string of savage murders precipitated by a local art auction.
When a painting by celebrated landscape artist Henry Hogson goes up for auction, art dealers descend upon the village. Local collectors are outraged when the work sells to an out-of-towner for a princely sum. Soon after, a brutal murderer begins targeting the Midsomer art world. Further complicating the case, the usually collected Barnaby becomes besotted with...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad are about to welcome a few new faces, but first, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her loyal team, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, and Steve McAndrew, will solve their final cases together, bringing justice to decades-old murders that stumped London's Metropolitan Police.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 7teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious creature is killing sheep in Midsomer County, but it soon moves on to larger prey.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast. Bonus: Behind-the-scenes featurette and bloopers.
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