Summary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHISummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWO RATED RSummary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Summary: This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains old, and why a secretive division of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: A psycho-killer is released in the future after being cryogenically frozen since the 1990s. The future's only hope lies in the cop that originally brought him down. Special features included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Taylor, Courtney Faye
Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TAYSummary: Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: Everyone's favorite Police Lieutenant is back in his famous trench coat. Join Columbo as he asks all the right questions in some of the most deceptive and deadly cases. No murderer can hide for long with Columbo on the beat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLSummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGEatwell, Piu Marie
Summary: Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing ominously in Leimert Park. An "unsightly object" is identified as the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts who had been lured west by the siren call of Hollywood. Her killer would never be found, but Short’s death would bring her the fame she had always sought....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 EATSummary: In Love Knot, Taggart finds himself in the Scottish Highlands after a woman's body is dredged from the River Clyde with her face deliberately disfigured and her hands bound by climbing rope. In Hostile Witness, members of the Referendum for the Return of Capital Punishment party are killed, and Taggart is pressed for a quick solution to the crime. In Evil Eye, a fortune-telling gypsy is found...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Root of evil: Taggart and Jardine struggle to decipher the clues of pollen, a hanky, and an axe in the brutal murders of merciless local loan sharks. Double jeopardy: A woman's body is discovered in the woods-- an apparent suicide, but Taggart senses murder when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Summary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: A rookie cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLASummary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015