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295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers...
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3 videodiscs (5 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Care and protection: DI Jack Frost has to cope with the impending death of his wife as he investigates the disappearance of a young girl and a 30 year old cold case.
A minority of one: While Frost is investigating a series of burglaries in a black area of Denton, one of his informants, a single mother, is murdered as Mullett worries about bad press.
Widows and orphans: Frost investigates two serial criminals preying on senior women, a burglar and...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Appropriate adults: When an 8 year old girl disappears near the local woods, foul play is suspected as circumstances point to a seemingly harmless 20 year old with Down's Syndrome.
Quarry: Two animal rights activists are murdered following a protest of a fox hunt.
Paying the price: A ruthless kidnapper tests Frost's skills to the full - it proves a tough case to crack and, for one woman, time is running out.
Series
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2 videodiscs (approximately 208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Detective Chief Jane Tennison has been transferred to a new station and now has the job of cleaning up the streets of Soho. The team goes into the underworld of teenage prostitution, pornography and runaways.
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4 videodiscs (676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
9) Red pill
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Physical Desc
283 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives" -- a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life -- and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place...
Series
George Gently volume series 2
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2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Inspector George Gently, a former Scotland Yard sleuth, returns to track murderers in Britain's North Country.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 466 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Detective Richard Poole is still trapped on the stunning Caribbean island of Saint Marie, but, for him, the sun, sea, and sand aren't quite paradise. Faced with puzzling murders and a local team with unorthodox approaches, Poole must use his eye for detail, relentless logic and stubborn refusal to leave anything unexplained to solve these cases. He is joined once again by the feisty Camille Bordey, instinctive, wild, exotic and brilliant. Together...
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2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some, Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Against the stunning landscapes of Scotland's iconic Loch Ness, local detective sergeant, Annie Redford finds herself in the midst of her first murder investigation; DCI Lauren Quigley is called in to lead the investigation, joined by forensic psychologist Blake Albrighton who believes there is more to the murder than initially meets the eye. Grief, terror, and suspicion soon shatter the town's normality.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), a Vancouver drug lord trying to go legit and Mary Spalding (Klea Scott), the head of the Canadian intelligence service for the Pacific region work on opposite sides of the law. Reardon and Spalding form an uneasy undercover alliance to protect their turf from rivals inside and outside their organizations. All loyalties are negotiable in this high-stakes game, and the players use money, sex, drugs, and murder to secure the...
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7 videodiscs (approximately 16 1/2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes threaten everything she has worked for.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Citizens living in Fortitude, an Arctic town hailed as the safest place on Earth, are rocked to the core by the murder of one of their own. A detective is quickly flown in from out-of-town to assist the local Chief of Police with the investigation of the town's first-ever violent crime and the two men must work together despite the deep mistrust each has for the other.
17) Prime suspect
Series
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1 videodisc (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is assigned the case of a prostitute murdered by a serial killer. She finds that she must not only match wits with the killer, but must fight for respect and credibility in the police department itself.
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5 videodiscs (775 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
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2 videodiscs (249 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe O'Loughlin is a successful psychologist with a loving family, but a recent medical diagnosis has thrown his life off balance. When the police ask him to assist in the case of a murdered young woman, ghosts from his past begin to resurface.
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4 videodiscs (354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Actor Martin Shaw stars as the principled detective George Gently in these four feature-length mysteries. These dramas unfold against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain during the tumultuous 1960s. Based on the long-running series of books by Alan Hunter.
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