Summary: Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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Summary: Jack Irish is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2014

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Summary: Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Jack Irish, is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010

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