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In this series, Peter Pascoe and his wife, Ellie, now heavily pregnant, drive to a picturesque Cotsworld village to visit friends, only to find them murdered; a charming serial killer haunts the sleepy Yorkshire town of Wetherton; pest control takes on a new meaning when Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious rose grower; and Dalziel finds himself under suspicion when an old man is killed by a drunken driver.
2) Father Brown
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In the idyllic English countryside of the 1950s, murder and foul play are afoot. Father Brown, a Catholic priest who has spent years learning of evil from the confessions of his parishioners, is on the case. A loving adaptation of the novels of GK Chesterton, Father Brown presents a long forgotten side of country life full of humour, warmth and devious goings on. The shambolic Father may seem like the last person you'd turn to in a crisis, but beneath...
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The beautiful Yorkshire village of Keldale is scandalised by the gruesome murder of local farmer, William Tey. The Yorkshire police are obliged to team one of their investigators with a London Superintendent, which places well spoken Superintendent Thomas Lynley with the tricky and resentful detective, Barbara Havers. While their relationship struggles, their findings become ever more interesting and when the investigators organise a reunion between...
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The third season of this riveting crime drama opens with a cataclysmic event which reverberates throughout the eight episodes. Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster, with the wreckage landing right in the lap of 'H' Division - on Leman Street itself. From the twisted debris of the crash emerge clues that uncover long hidden deceits. These crimes threaten not only to destroy Reid's iron grip on 'H' Division, but to unravel his...
5) DCI Banks
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Stephen Tompkinson returns as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Alan Banks in three more chilling crime stories. As this series opens, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must learn to work with dramatic changes to his team. Detective Annie Cabbot is off on maternity leave soon to be replaced by the impossible-to-read Helen Morton.
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Hurray for Huckle volume 19
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A nameplate about to be put on a statue of Admiral Hornblast goes missing and Huckle, Sally and Lowly try to uncover what happened to it. // Pig Will and Pig Won't are playing spies. However Pig Won't suddenly finds himself out of the game when his Secret Spy Ring disappears!
7) Maigret
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In Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret comes under pressure from his superiors and the press to catch a serial killer of women with no common feature except their hair. Making no progress Maigret sets a trap using undercover police women. Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.
8) The ravine
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"When an unspeakable crime rocks a peaceful community, family and friends are left to wonder if they overlooked the murderer among them or if there might be more to the story. Inspired by true events."--www.imdb.com.
10) Whitechapel
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The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
11) Bedlam
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A supernatural thriller set in a luxury apartment building which is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip new high rise on the edge of a British metropolis. Behind the façade of stylish 21st century living lie unimaginable horrors, for this former pre-Victorian asylum is possessed by its previous inhabitants. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool....
13) Scott and Bailey
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Police crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team and, despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they...
14) Waking the Dead
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The Cold Case squad is a crack team of detectives, reopening the files on unsolved murders. A psychotic killer is the key to an investigation when a victim who survived is harassed by a copycat assailant, a deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury who found him guilty, the team come up against a wall of Whitehall secrecy when a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering a prominent Home...
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"Meet Richard Castle: he's a successful murder-mystery writer who has just killed off his main character. However, it seems one of his fans liked his books just a bit too much when a copycat murderer starts running around killing people as described in Castle's books. After being questioned by the police Richard joins forces with Detective Kate Beckett to solve this case. The two become partners begin working together to solve other murders in New...
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John Rosow is a private detective hired to tail Harold Fullmer. After uncovering Harold's identity as a missing person-one of the thousands presumed dead after the terrorist attacks of 9/11-Rosow is persuaded by a large reward to bring Harold back, unwillingly, to his wife in New York City. Ultimately, however, Rosow must decide whether it's right or wrong to return Harold to a life that no longer exists.
18) The Hippopotamus
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Based on the Best-Selling Comedy Novel by Stephen Fry. Disgruntled, cantankerous semi-famous poet Ted Wallace (Roger Allam - Endeavor, The Queen) is hired to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings. Also starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Dark Knight Rises, Full Metal Jacket) and Fiona Shaw (5 Harry Potter movies).
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In London, Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) and her son, Roland (Geoffrey Steele), engage renowned detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to accompany them back home to Scotland as protection for their priceless gem, the Star of Rhodesia. When Roland turns up murdered and the Star disappears, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate -- only to discover another murder, and a strange connection with Watson's acquaintance Maj....
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Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) saves noted Swiss physicist Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) from the Gestapo in Zurich and smuggles him to London. There, Tobel is reunited with his wife, Charlotte (Kaaren Verne), to whom he gives a coded message in the event he disappears. Tobel presents the weapon he developed to government officials, and when he is subsequently abducted by arch-villain Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill), Holmes and Dr. Watson (Nigel...
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