Stuart Orme
1) Alfresco
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Wickedly funny send-ups of pop culture, bureaucracy, and this very show. Combines the satirical bite of Saturday Night Live with the absurdist flair of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Contains 13 episodes with special features included.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2002]
Language
English
Description
A team of top-level government agents makes a chilling discovery: extraterrestrial beings have landed and are quickly taking control of the residents of a small midwestern town--manipulating their bodies and minds like puppets.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jack Taylor is a former cop turned private investigator with little to show for his time in the Irish Guards. Few of his former colleagues have any regard for Taylor. The exception is his friend Garda Kate Noonan, though even she has to walk a fine line. Six months sober, Taylor takes on cases with the help of his young assistant, Cody, even while he worries about his elderly mother. Try as he might, the ex-cop from Galway finds that in his hometown,...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set three includes three all new feature-length mysteries. Cross - When a man is found crucified, Jack's investigations reveal that the dead man's brother was responsible for the death of Norma Mitchell. Headstone - Jack is on a race against time to locate a former nemesis, Ronan Meyers, who has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Purgatory - Jack is hired by the head of a large software company to investigate the theft of valuable data.
Series
Foyle's War volume 7
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Self-destructive, pigheaded, and overfond of the bottle, Jack Taylor ... is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group executing summary justice, and a sadistic nun dubbed "Lucifer"...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jack races to find former nemesis Ronan Meyers, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Jack supports Kate as she prepares for her operation, while Darragh comes into his own as Jack's assistant.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 1
Language
English
Description
Jack's investigation into the death of a man found crucified reveals that the victim's brother was implicated in the hit-and-run death of a woman. Could the woman's family members be out for revenge? Kate's cousin becomes Jack's new assistant, and Kate hides a big secret.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 3
Language
English
Description
August 1945. Foyle probes the mysterious motives of James Devereaux, a former POW and member of the British Free Corps, who refuses to defend himself against treason charges. Meanwhile, Milner investigates the murder of a young woman rooming with the Devereaux family's housekeeper.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 1
Language
English
Description
A translator for the Nuremberg trials is killed, leading Foyle into the world of international oil politics and corrupt Nazi businessmen.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
With tensions running high ahead of a high-level Palestinian conference, Foyle investigates a plot involving murder, espionage, and a terrorist threat.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 2
Language
English
Description
Looking into the deaths of several high-ranking Russian defectors, Foyle finds ties to the apparent suicide of an unidentified Russian man and the disappearance of a young woman. His search leads him to a government listening station that may not be what it appears.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fresh from a stay in America, Foyle encounters MI5 agents Hilda Pierce and Arthur Valentine, who draw him into the hunt for a suspected Russian spy ring. As part of his investigation, Foyle reconnects with Sam, now working for a nuclear scientist and married to political candidate Adam Wainwright.
Author
Series
Foyle's War volume 1
Language
English
Description
June 1945. Tracking an escaped Russian POW at the behest of British intelligence, Foyle becomes involved in a murder investigation conducted by his former subordinate, DI Paul Milner. The situation threatens not only their already strained relationship, but also Foyle's life.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 2
Language
English
Description
Determined to restore law and order, a group of local vigilantes known as the Pikemen is meting out its own brand of rough justice on the streets of Galway. Taylor comes face-to-face with the group during one of his investigations but soon ends up on the wrong side of the law himself.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a series of apparent suicides that have left four young women dead, a worried mother hires Taylor to find her missing 18-year-old daughter. But something about his new client makes the detective uneasy. While getting to the bottom of the earlier deaths, he discovers that the mother may have an ulterior motive for her search.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seven months after his mother's stroke, and continuing on his path of sobriety and healthier living, Jack is called on to investigate the death of a female university student, who falls from a roof while dressed in theatre costume. A ring of paper around her wrist contains an apparent suicide note written in her blood, and Gardai assume the death to be drug related.