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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lionel Essrog is a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome. He ventures through 1950s New York trying to solve his friend's murder. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This noir drama stars Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon (*Boardwalk Empire, Nocturnal Animals*) as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (706 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Publisher
Burning Bulb Productions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lenny Matthews is a detective in a small town in Arizona. When he tries to stop a human trafficking ring, he is murdered in cold blood, leaving his two sons orphaned. Ten years later, his sons, Ace and Jimmy, return to their hometown to follow in their father's footsteps as private investigators. When they find a box of their father's things, their hope is renewed that they will finally be able to catch their father's murderer.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (779 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Formerly a U.S. intelligence agent, McGill was based in London. He was thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, and now finds his 'false' reputation has preceded him everywhere he goes. While trying to clear his name, he takes odd and intriguing 'private eye' jobs all over Europe, to make ends meet.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1968
Edition
Widescreen or standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sleek insurance investigator has been assigned to solve a bank robbery that has Boston's finest completely baffled. Her sleuthing leads to the sophisticated, handsome and unbelievably rich Thomas Crown. The more she gets involved with the case, the more she becomes suspicious of his involvement.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (391 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having opened her private detective agency, Sara reunites with Dr. Kreizler, the formidable alienist, and John Moore, now a New York Times reporter, to find the Spanish Consular's kidnapped infant daughter. Their investigation leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, heading towards a dangerous and elusive killer. The series shines a light on the provocative issues of the era, the corruption of institutions, income inequality, yellow...
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (911 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a kid, Todd wanted nothing more than to be a private detective. Now that he is, he's quite good at it. The rest of his directionless life? That's a bit of a mystery, especially to his uber-successful lawyer mom. So when she offers him a job as an in-house investigator at her firm as a way for him to get his act together, he reluctantly agrees, as long as Mom promises to let her adult son be who he wants to be.
13) I, Anna
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of a beautiful divorcee and a troubled detective intersect during the investigation of a vicious murder on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of London, sparking a tangled web of passion, intrigue and deceit. An absorbing film noir told from the perspective of an intriguing woman, a key suspect in a murder case, who becomes an obsession for the detective in charge of the investigation.
14) Perfect piece
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christine is private detective with an unusual case: tracking down a missing Casanova. However, that case becomes more complicated when romance develops between them.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (484 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties...
16) The moonstone
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an Indian diamond believed to be of great religious significance and value goes missing, Franklin Blake has to find what happened to it in order to win back the heart of the woman he loves.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 319 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she₂s just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. While communism and prohibition are debated in speakeasies, society will never be the same, and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill.
19) Zone 414
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future in a colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots. When its creator's daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael, to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self-aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son, a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick, she finds a new path as a private investigator.
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