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10061) The devil's due
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes adventure volume 3
Publisher
Collins Crime Club, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date - a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London's most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers...
10062) The spring of the tiger
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
10063) Friday the 13th
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A carload of teenagers head for a weekend of fun at a lakeside cabin. Meanwhile, Clay and Jenna pursue a lead in the search for his missing sister, against the advice of police and cautions from the locals. The lakeside cabin happens to be part of the boarded up Camp Crystal Lake. There, they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and all of his deadly intentions.
10064) Infamous
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
10065) City of dark corners
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons--a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
10066) Motive: Season two
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Feisty female homicide detective, Angie Flynn, matches wits with killers in this deadly, cerebral game of cat-and-mouse. Her team, with the help of the Coroner's Office, must find their way through twisted, complicated and at times diabolical mazes on a quest to analyse the evidence and ultimately, to discover ... the motive. This four DVD release includes all 13 episodes from season two of this highly-acclaimed crime series.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013, 2007]
Language
English
Description
Appaloosa (2008, 115 min.): 1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town. Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007, 160 min.): Everyone in 1880s...
10069) Capote: In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Capote - In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for the New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of the nineteenth-century assassination of an Anglo-Irish landlord whose demise occurred at the height of the Great Irish Famine evaluates Mahon's possible role in the sufferings of his tenants and draws on the observations of powerful period leaders.
10071) Midsomer murders: Set 24
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
DCI Barnaby and DS Jones are called upon to solve a series of crimes in rural Midsomer County, England.
10073) Murder on Fifth Avenue
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century Manhattan.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
10075) The pelican brief
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common: murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city. Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the...
10078) Sniffing out murder
Author
Series
A Bailey the bloodhound mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a murder unleashes a widespread investigation through Crosbyville, children's book author Pris and her trusty bloodhound, Bailey, must sniff out the truth before the whole town goes to the dogs. After deciding that life as a teacher wasn't right for her, Priscilla found inspiration for her first children's book in her three-year-old bloodhound's nose for truth, and so The Adventures of Bailey the Bloodhound was born. After the book's massively...
10079) Harper's Island
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends and family meet on an island just outside of Seattle to celebrate a wedding. On the island, which is famous for a streak of unsolved murders that occurred seven years ago, suspense ensues when one by one they end up dead. Has the killer returned or is someone else to blame?
10080) Winter of despair
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....