Acorn Media (Firm)
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (624 min.)
Description
Cutting-edge Victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 66 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
We discover the history of Greenway, which provides a rare insight into the life of Agatha Christie, including an exclusive interview with Christie's only grandson Matthew, and also interviews with Janet Morgan, Agatha's biographer, and the Agatha Christie expert and crime writer Baroness P.D. James. Also featured is stunning footage of Greenway House, Christie's magical manor in Devon where she escaped from the literary circus and spent time with...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (557 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Charlie Nelson. When the corpse of an elderly man disappears from his deathbed, Barnaby and Nelson find themselves on the hunt for a serial body-snatcher.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A three-part British police drama tells the true story of scientist Alec Jeffrey's discovery of DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s and its introductory use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.
9) Vera: Set 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 405 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Linda Radlett, daughter of Lord and Lady Alconleigh, follows her heart in and out of adventures, marriages, and dalliances, much to the dismay of her parents. Her dear friend Polly Hampton maintains a cooler head in her romantic entanglements. Seamlessly weaving together the two women's tangled love affairs.
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (488 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container.
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the gripping thriller from Jed Mercurio, veteran detective Tom Brannick connects a criminal's car pulled from the sea to a notorious series of disappearances, including his own wife's twenty years earlier. Brannick begins an obsessive campaign to unmask a possible assassin, code-named Goliath, in a case that evokes Northern Ireland's dark past.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (572 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto₂s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist...
17) Whitstable Pearl
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 298 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the novels by Julie Wassmer, this mystery series follows big-hearted restaurant owner Pearl Nolan, who sets up a local detective agency in the English seaside town of Whitstable after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She's joined by Detective Mike McGuire, who comes from London to investigate a case.
18) Vera: Set 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (371 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With DS Joe Ashworth having finally gotten his promotion, Vera has a new sergeant, Aiden Healy, a know-it-all who doesn't call her "ma'am." They investigate a fire in a holiday park, a 30-year-old mystery involving a missing teenager, a tragic truth at a remote farm, and the death of a man who jumped from the top of a multi-story car park... or did he?
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves. A cantankerous but brilliant detective solves...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container.
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
