Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Cherubim & seraphim) While Morse goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVSummary: Former colleague Sam Ryan calls upon the team after the health secretary is assassinated, but as the investigation progresses, Nikki fears uncovering the truth will put the entire Lyell team in danger. Meanwhile, murders continue to happen, and each case seems to carry with it a secret from each team member's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Superintendent Sandra Pullman leads the unsolved crimes unit of the Metropolitan Police. Her team includes three aging former detectives lured out of retirement. Can a curmudgeonly trio of crime busters learn new tricks to crack tough crimes? Or are old-fashioned hunches and footwork still best?
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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 NEWSummary: Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SERSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: "Superintendent Sandra Pullman ... heads a team of aging detectives pulled out of retirement for a job they're uniquely qualified to do: tackle cold cases--some of them decades old"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: With old-school detective work and a little state-of-the-art forensics, the veterans unearth a range of baffling crimes, including the murder of a lawyer, a racially motivated attack on an Asian bride, and a mysterious unidentified human torso. Includes the complete 8-episode second season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. Despite objections from his superiors, Sutton believes the young woman's murder may be connected to a previous attack and embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. Realistically portraying the ins and outs of police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ma 1Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Stephen Tompkinson returns as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks in three more gripping crime stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Oxford's favorite detectives Lewis and Hathaway return for the eighth and final series of the hit series. Investigating the city's most complex and intriguing crimes, Lewis clashes with the new Chief Superintendent, who questions his traditional approach. Will Lewis decide to call time on his policing career? Meanwhile, Hathaway is forced to confront his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: Glasgow's finest take on the city's worst crimes in Taggart, a gripping cop drama with a hard-edged Scottish burr. Witty scripts and deadpan humor give this quintessentially Scottish series universal appeal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter, desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for her career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquility of England's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AFTSummary: Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDSummary: DI Robert Lewis comes out of retirement to assist newly promoted DI James Hathaway investigate a series of crimes in and around Oxford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: It's 1969, and things have taken a darker turn for the old Cowley team. With the gang now scattered across Oxfordshire, it takes a series of brutal crimes to reunite them. Now joined by former adversary DCI Ronnie Box and his sidekick DS Alan Jago, the gang must battle crime and corruption to finally solve their greatest challenge, which is to find the truth behind George Fancy's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019