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.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVDeaver, Jeffery
Summary: Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons, even those who don't wish to be found, Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: CD FIC DEADeaver, Jeffery
Summary: Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he's an expert at tracking missing persons--even those who don't wish to be found--Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M DEASummary: 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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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVEllis, Mary
Summary: On the run from a troubled past, Kate Weller, the newest member of Price Investigations, covers her tracks, changes her name and takes a case in Charleston, South Carolina, where she can hide in plain sight. Renting a charming room with a waterfront view, Kate sets about trying to locate her adopted client's natural siblings, only to find more questions than answers when she eventually tracks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLSummary: Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she's just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HETSummary: From the makers of Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway, Private Investigators comes a light-hearted murder mystery series. It's the 1960s and police forensics are rudimentary. Luckily the residents of Great Slaughter, nestled deep in the British countryside, have a secret weapon. Sister Boniface. This nun might be predisposed to forgive but she's also one hell of an amateur detective. If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SISCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISSummary: For librarian Aurora Teagarden, who is known around her small town as a master sleuth, nothing beats a good mystery. When mayhem and murder jump off the page and into her small town, she must solve each crime clue by clue before it is too late. Includes: Last Scene Alive; Reap What You Sew; The Disappearing Game
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AURSummary: Beckett finds herself in the Captain's chair while Castle makes the leap from author to full-blown Private Investigator. The season begins with a bang as a call from a mysterious stranger puts Beckett on the run and sets off an explosive chain of events. The action gets even more exciting, and a little crazy, when Castle's daughter, Alexis, joins her father to solve the case of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ashley Jensen is back as formidable and fashionable PI Agatha Raisin in Series 4 of this comic mystery series based on the books by MC Beaton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWO RATED RThompson, Paul Matthew
Summary: The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare and grumpy Frank Hathaway return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery/comedy- drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. One might think the birthplace of William Shakespeare would be safe from fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft, and ransom, but they would be wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: A security expert is sent to investigate the disappearance of a research team drilling deeper into the Sahara desert's surface than anyone has attempted before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gone to Hell Ltd. 2013