Sydney Bartleby, a mystery writer, pretends to murder and bury his wife while she is away on a trip, only to find himself a prime suspect in her death when she fails to return.

"In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a séance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan ... dead ... murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot ..."--Page 4 of...

This is the gripping third series that airs on PBS. Michael Kitchen plays a veteran detective whose job on the home front in southern England is complicated by WWII raging over Europe. DVD includes behind the scenes documentary and cast reflections.

A French police detective travels to Japan to settle the estate of a dead ex-lover, where a series of violent and comedic surprises await him.

In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere. What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...

"Sidney y Alicia Bartleby, un joven matrimonio, residen en un pequeño cottage en la campiña inglesa, él escribiendo, ella pintando. Están casados desde hace varios años y llevan una vida muy aislada. Sidney está redactando e intentando vender unos guiones para una serie televisiva, lo que les permitiría paliar sus estrecheces económicas, mientras sigue esperando la respuesta de un editor norteamericano sobre la publicación de una novela que...

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...

Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.

Axel Foley is a brash, street smart Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh surroundings of Beverly Hills. And before Axel gets his man, he gets up to his neck in an international network of smugglers and drug peddlers.

At the scene of a bizarre murder, L.A. homicide detective Thomas Dagget discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth. In his fight to stop the forces of evil -- led by the powerful angel Gabriel -- Dagget finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher. Together they race against time and terror to save the world as we know it.