Items Matching Tag 'Detective'

Sergeant Cork: The Complete Series 3 (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 18 NOVEMBER 2012. In the melting pot of 1890s London, Sergeant Cork works for Scotland Yard’s newly formed Criminal Investigation Department, enthusiastically employing the pioneering techniques of the new science of forensics to tackle crimes born of poverty and deprivation, passion, vengeance and greed. Ably assisted by youthful detective Bob Marriott,...

The Devil'sStar (Book Details)
On the cover Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram—a five-pointed star—is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers—and the murder of his...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Book Details)
On the cover: Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful private investigator of 'traditional' build is well know to mllions across the world through the best selling No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels can now read the next instalmment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never quite as straighforward as they seem....

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (DVD Details)
From the literary phenomenon by Stieg Larsson comes this gripping new thriller which will have you guessing right until the very end. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. Nearly forty years later a journalist by the name of Mikael Blomqvist gets an unusual...

Nine Dragons (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: One thing you can say for the Triads: they know the importance of family. And they’re about to teach Harry Bosch a lesson. When Detective Harry Bosch catches the case of a gunned-down liquor =-store owner in downtown LA, it looks like a slam-dunk. The eldery Chinese man’s customers included plenty of gangbangers, and it just seemed like one day his luck ran out....

A is for Alibi (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies’ man. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern Californian town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity,...

The Last Sermon (Book Details)
Synopsis: When the mangled remains of several bodies are discovered strewn across Central Park, the NYPD's finest are both baffled and appalled. It appears to be the demented handy work of The Big Apple's latest serial killer, but there is something more to the mutilations...something far more sinister. It quickly becomes apparent that evil is prowling the streets of New York with a sick,...

Nemesis (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to the cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole, still mourning the death of his police partner, is assigned to the case. While his girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch but when he...

The Avengers - Series 3 (DVD Details)
John Steed (Patrick Macnee) is a highly-trained, top-level secret agent and Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) a cool and resourceful anthropologist and adventurer. Together they continue their crime-solving escapades in the original British cult TV series. Includes the complete series 3 digitally restored for the first time with a wealth of special features. Episodes Comprise: 1. Brief For...

Sherlock Holmes - And The Leading Lady/Incident At Victoria Falls (DVD Details)
The legendary sleuth from 221B Baker Street returns with an all-star cast for another two nail-biting cases, saving the innocent, pursuing the guilty and rescuing his beloved England from the hands of unscrupulous despots. Featuring an all-star cast including Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings and Star Wars), Patrick MacNee (The Avengers), Morgan Fairchild, Jenny Seagrove (Judge John Deed),...

Unspoken (Book Details)
On the Cover: Winter should be a quiet time on the holiday island of Gotland. But two crimes shatter the peace for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas. The first body found is Henry Dahistrom, an alchoholic photographer. He had just had a spectacular success at the races, winning eigthy thousand krona when his horse came home in the fifth race of the day. The next morning his body, badly beated,...

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Book Details)
It is a summer’s night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least...

The Lovers (Book Details)
On the Cover: When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is...

The Avengers - Series 2 And Surviving Episodes From Series 1 (DVD Details)
Extraordinary crimes against the people and the state must be avenged by agents extraordinary. See the crime solving capers of the eponymous 60s secret agents for the first time restored and packed with extras.

About Face (Book Details)
On the Cover: At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He’s charmed – perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola – by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As...

The Girl of his Dreams (Book Details)
On the Cover: One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispecttore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - tgether he an Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconcievably, no one has reported a missing child, nor...

The Return (Book Details)
On the Cover: Van Veeteren returns ... An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren, when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification – bar one crucial detail ... Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double...

The Bellini Card (Book Details)
On the Cover: The third book in Jason’ Goodwin’s award winning series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of nineteenth century Venice. Yashim, a brilliant detective who also happens to be a eunuch, is summoned by the new Sultan for an audience. The Sultan charges Yashim with finding a missing masterpiece by the famous Venitian artist Bellini, which,...

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book Details)
The cover says: The Expose – Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry The Murder - When a young couple are found dead in their Stokholm apartment, it’s...

The Pyramid (Book Details)
On the Cover: When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him;he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to...

Six Seconds (Book Details)
The countdown has begun. A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise. In Iraq, an aid worker whose husband and child were killed in a brutal attack, saves the life of an American - believing he can help her avenge her family's death. An anguished mother desperate to find her child. In California, a mother arrives to pick up her son from school, only to discover that her husband has taken...

Last Rites (Book Details)
A young woman is on the run, her boyfriend found brutally slain in their bed. A simple crime of passion. Or is it? The Lancashire town of Blackley has been rocked by the violent death of Luke Howarth. The fingers of suspicion point towards his girlfriend, Sarah Goode - missing since his murder. Just another crime of passion with a tragic end. Reporter Jack Garrett isn't so sure - especially...

The Stone Gallows (Book Details)
After an accident chasing a suspect, DC Cameron Stone had spent three months in intensive care before he could even recall what happened: the high speed pursuit of a vice baron through the night streets of Glasgow that had not only almost finished him but had taken the life of a teenage mother and her child. Then there was the message from Audrey on the back of a 'get well soon' card announcing...

Double Cross (Book Details)
What it says on the cover A PSYCHOTIC KILLER WHO CRAVES AN AUDIENCE Just when Alex Cross’s life is calming down, he’s drawn back into the game to confront the Audience Killer – a terrifying genius who stages his killings as public spectacles in Washington DC and broadcasts them live on the net. AND A MURDERING MASTERMIND WHO WORKS ALONE In Colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning...

The Man Who Went Up In Smoke (Book Details)
What it says on the cover A journalist has vanished without trace in Budapest. When Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn into an Eastern European underworld in search of a man that nobody knows. What he discovers will put his life at risk. Swedish detective Inspector Martin Beck is a master of human nature and relentless in his pursuit of criminals. The Man Who Went...

The Oxford Murders (Book Details)
What it says on the cover Using rules and axioms, there will always be some propositions that can’t be proved either true or false. But can this apply to murder. Godel’s Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. Murder, however, is not. Yet no long after he has greeted his elderly landlady – and her rather luscious...

Death Note - L: change the WorLd (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
A spin-off to the "Death Note" films featuring the character L, the enigmatic detective from those titles. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a highly infectious virus, taking the sole survivor of its test run in a Thai village, and a junior high schooler named Maki Nikaido under...

The Moonstone (Book Details)
The Moonstone, a beautiful diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to be cursed, is given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, only to be stolen that very night. When Seargeant Cuff is brought in to investigate, he soon realises that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. The Moonstone appeared in serial form in All the Year Round during the first eight months of 1...

Ironside - Season One (8 Discs) (DVD Details)
Confined to a wheelchair by a sniper's bullet, former Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Emmy- winner Raymond Burr) consults for the San Francisco police department, solving major crimes with a crack team of investigators, including Detective Sergeant Ed Brown, policewoman Eve Whitfield and ex-con Mark Sanger. Set during the turbulent 1960's, Emmy-winning Ironside confronted the hottest...

Suffer the Little Children (Book Details)
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured during a brutal attack, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteen month old son. What can have motivated such a violent assault? As he investigates,...