Simon Langton
Series
The Duchess of Duke Street volume season 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The final episodes follow the indomitable heroine through the turmoil and terror of World War I to the 1920s. Based on a true story of Rosa Lewis, a culinary genius and the owner of London's Cavendish Hotel.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bennet is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman, the second of five sisters. She has a long-suffering but loving clerical father, and a scatterbrained mother anxious to marry them off as soon as possible--to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds arrogant, cold, and rude. Her older sister Jane falls in love with Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, while youngest sister Lydia...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bennet is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman, the second of five sisters. She has a long-suffering but loving clerical father, and a scatterbrained mother anxious to marry them off as soon as possible--to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds arrogant, cold, and rude. Her older sister Jane falls in love with Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, while youngest sister Lydia...
Series
Midsomer murders volume Set 21
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones must investigate the secrets and scandals centering on a reclusive couple after a social services investigator tries to visit them and is later found dead.
Series
Rough diamond volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Aging criminal mastermind Des simply won't go gentle into that good night. Donning all manner of disguises, he can fool the authorities--and his marks--into thinking he's just another harmless old geezer. Behind his spectacles, though, Des always has his eye out for the next big score in diamonds, gold, or piles of cold cash. His intricately planned heists prove so daring and so outrageous that he always gets his target. And as for Des's victims--...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This brilliant sequel to 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' finds Smiley emerging from retirement to engage his lifelong nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla, in a final test of wits, nerves, and loyalties. Stellar ensemble casts bring John le Carre's thrilling tales of Cold War-era espionage to vivid life in these television classics.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
October 1944. At a psychiatric clinic treating troubled soldiers, the investigation of a doctor's murder turns up no shortage of suspects among the patients and staff. It also complicates Foyle's friendship with Dr. Josef Novak, the Polish refugee who heads the clinic.
Series
Foyle's war volume set 5
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 2
Language
English
Description
The reclusive lives of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham (Edward Fox and Phyllida Law) comes under police scrutiny when a social services investigator (Jeff Rawle) is murdered.
Author
Series
Midsomer Murders volume 6
Language
English
Description
A VAT inspector goes missing as he hunts for an illicit cider still responsible for brewing The Beast, a potent local hooch. While temperance preacher Norman Grigor calls on residents to repent of their drunken ways.