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Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The gruesome death of Mrs. McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim'a young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy village where the old lady lived and where, by chance, his good friend Ariadne Oliver is also staying There...
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.
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 1
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 2
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 1
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or a political...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Murder in the mews: On Guy Fawkes Night, Poirot is called in on a case he suspects is murder made to look like suicide. The adventure of Johnnie Waverly: A country squire hires Poirot to investigate threats against the squires young son. Four and twenty blackbirds: Poirot's keen powers of observation and culinary know-how help him solve a murder case.
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.
14) Gaudy night: #3
Series
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...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beside their nuptial promises, newlywed society sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and crime novelist Harriet Vane makes another vow: no more crime in their lives. Fat chance for that when the lovebirds and faithful butler Bunter arrive at the country cottage they've just purchased to find the overly attentive villagers disrupting their solitude, and the previous owner's body in the basement.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie₂s beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the unparalleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot. With a little help from his friends, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon, Poirot unravels the most tangled cases with flair and finesse.
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