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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.
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.
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
BBC
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In season six of this gritty british crime thriller, grumpy old-school copper Andy Dalziel and his well-mannered university educated partner Peter Pascoe, face more perplexing cases: The perplexing death of a schoolboy, the mysterious murder of a Sikh woman, the unexplained killing of a solicitor, and the perplexing appearance of a skeleton in a former mining town. On top of which, with Pascoe's wife and daughter now in America, the odd couple find...
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
BBC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Andy Dalziel and sidekick Peter Pascoe are back to solve more murder mysteries in this season of Dalziel and Pascoe. The riveting combination of Dalziel's old-style policing and Pascoe's university-educated new man approach has made them a worldwide hit. Based on the award-winning novels of top crime-writer Reginald Hill.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set thirteen
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Never mind the tube connecting the exhaust pipe to the window of the vintage automobile-- Simon Bright's death only looks like suicide. The lovesick young man's murder touches off a search for Laura, his girlfriend and partner in ballroom dancing classes. But who saved the last dance for Simon.
10) King's crystal
Series
Midsomer murders volume set thirteen
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
11) Death and dreams
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 6
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a string of deaths in Midsomer Worthy, Barnaby follows a trail of strange clues, nearly to his own demise.
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...
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 4teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At the Luxton Deeping Photographic Society's annual exhibition, a "shooting war" breaks out between digital-camera devotees and old-fashioned film fanatics. The situation turns deadly serious after one of the photographers winds up strangled and a trail of evidence seems to implicate Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby himself in the murder.
Series
Midsomer murders volume set thirteen
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years past their prime, the band Hired Gun aims for a comeback at the Midsomer Rocks Music Festival. With Barnaby among the legions of fans who still love the band's music, their revival holds promise--until someone sounds a discordant note by killing off the musicians, one by one.
15) The glitch
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 7teen
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A local scientist's determination to stop American millionaire's latest business venture has fatal repercussions.
"Software magnate Clinton Finn funds the construction of a new building for a local school, but not everyone is impressed with his generosity. George Jeffers claims the air-traffic control program he created for Finn is defective and possibly deadly, but the millionaire American insists they press on with the lucrative product. After...
16) 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...
17) Small mercies
Series
Midsomer murders volume set 8een
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
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 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
As the Upper Marshwood hunt heads off into the woods, a filthy tramp runs for cover, stumbles and falls into a pit ... screaming.
20) Country matters
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
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.
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