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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
10) Blackshore
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The picture postcard town of Blackwater might be a pastoral idyll for some - but it's hell on earth for DI Fia Lucey. Facing disciplinary charges for assaulting a violent criminal, Fia has reluctantly returned home to a town she left many years before. She starts investigating the recent disappearance of hotelier Roisin Hurley, a case everyone else seems strangely reluctant to pursue. After Roisin's body is pulled out of the lake, sordid secrets emerge....
11) Maigret
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
Inspector Maigret investigates murders in Paris and the surrounding countryside in his brilliant, singular manner. Based on the classic mystery novels by Georges Simenon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the impeccably turned-out diminutive Belgian sleuth. With the his razor-sharp mind and the aid of the affable Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels the thorniest cases without mussing a hair of his famously sculpted mustache. Set in the elegance of 1930's England, the series also includes Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...
15) The Lost Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, and Elle Fanning star in this mind-bending mystery-adventure that garnered two Emmy Award nominations. After Detective Joe Miller (Krause) comes into possession of a strange key, he unlocks a motel room that contains objects with supernatural powers. When Miller's daughter disappears, he fears she has passed through the room and into another dimension-and he alone holds the key to bringing her back.
16) Six Four
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When their teenage daughter goes missing, serving Glasgow police detective, Chris O'Neill, and his wife Michelle - a former undercover officer - use their skills to try and track her down. Michelle heads to London in a quest that puts her dangerously close to the criminal underworld she previously escaped. Meanwhile, Chris gets a tip-off about an infamous, unsolved kidnapping involving another teenage girl.
Publisher
All3Media International
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Paddy Meehan is a new kind of heroine. A young, female, feisty and funny trainee reporter, she often oversteps the mark between reporting crimes and solving them - while sometimes becoming part of the crime along the way. A big murder case breaks, and a member of Paddy's family is implicated. Paddy has to make a choice - does she follow the case, and risk being seen to betray her family, or does she turn her back on the career she's been longing for....
18) Beyond Paradise
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This spin-off from Death in Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée, Martha, as they leave London to start a new life on the Devon coast. Humphrey takes up the vacant position of Detective Inspector at Shipton Abbott police station, a slightly antiquated outpost of the Devon & Cornwall Police district. Meanwhile, Martha's keen to open up her own café. Both are hoping for a quiet lifestyle away from the stress and violence of the city....
19) Midsomer Murders
Publisher
All3Media International
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This murder mystery hit series is based on the award winning detective novels by Caroline Graham - blackmail, intrigue, deceit, adultery and murder abound, as the dastardly goings on in the seemingly idyllic county of Midsomer are unraveled by DCI Barnaby.
20) Unforgotten
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This crime drama focuses on a cold case reopened after 39 years. When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate. There are four suspects: a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what...
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