British Broadcasting Corporation
1) Rellik
Pub. Date
4s
Language
English
Description
An original six-part thriller, about an obsessive and disfigured UK police detective, the drama is told in reverse.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian detective is on the case in the first series of the hit PBS mystery. Fan favorite David Suchet stars as the dapper sleuth who solves the thorniest of cases with his formidable intellect. Set in glittering 1930s Europe, these remastered adaptations capture every splendid detail of the Art Deco era.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young copywriter takes a fatal fall on the job, but not before alerting his boss that something far more dire than bad copy has infiltrated the ad agency. The boss hires detective Death Bredon, Wimsey in disguise, who poses as an adman taking over the dead man's job. as Bredon, Wimsey writes snappy headlines, banters with the typists and carouses with highborn lowlifes in his free time, all while piecing together a web of nefarious criminals that...
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Wimsey goes on holiday in Scotland, hoping to relax and catch some trout, but he is soon called on to catch more than fish when Campbell, an unpopular local artist, is found dead. Campbell appears to have taken an accidental fall, but his hot-tempered behavior and ongoing fueds with several local men suggest murder. Wimsey feels certain of this when a key piece of evidence is missing from the seaside spot where Campbell was found. With six possible...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Th emystery begins and ends in the lounge of the Bellona Club, where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their club chairs. On Armistice day 1922, one of them, old General Fentiman, really is a corpse. Unpleasant indeed. Curiously, the general's sister, wealthy Lady Dorland, dies the same day and hte disposition of her significant fortune depends on which of the two died first. Wimsey answers that question and, in the process, uncovers...
7) London road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Five female bodies are found in Ipswich. The community bands together during their darkest of experiences in this moving tale of resilience and triumph.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Will Burton is a junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm, who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. Much to the aggravation of his courtroom rival, Maggie Gardner, Will has never lost a case. His talents acquit serial killer Liam Foyle of murder, and it is only a matter of time until Foyle kills again.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.