Death's shadow: A successful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, returns to Badger's Drift, his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Soon after, a local property developer becomes the first in a string of baffling murders. Strangler's wood: When a beautiful Brazilian woman is found strangled with a striped necktie in Raven's Wood, Barnaby experiences a disturbing sense of déjà vu. His investigation leads him to a trail fo blackmail,...

Chief Inspector Morse matches wits with a dangerous escaped mental patient who is a master of disguise. Morse also has to deal with growing Satanism in Oxfordshire. He is helped in the hunt by his psychiatrist, who appears to be a target

Directed by Billy Wilder and starring screen legends Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, this courtroom drama left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Power), is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Dietrich)...but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her...

Small-time hood Vito is released from jail after serving a twelve-year sentence. His only desire is to find the killer of his younger brother Sammy, a film editor murdered ten years earlier. His search leads him to the people Sammy spent his last weekend with, a group of wealthy people that involved his brother in their decadent lifestyle. Vito soon discovers that Sammy was involved in more than film editing

It looks like a tragic accident when Victor Dean falls down the spiral staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. His replacement (Wimsey in disguise) sets out to find the truth which leads him to a drug ring operating through someone at the agency

Two of Angela Lansbury's films. "A life at stake" is the story of a builder who is wary of the man he's working for. "Please murder me" is the story of an attorney suffers from guilt after helping his client (who he's fallen in love with) to murder her husband

Set amidst the Egyptian landscape, Hercule Poirot must unravel the web of treachery and guilt woven by the murderer of a beautiful young heiress

Two women poison a man and and dump his body in a pool. When the pool is later drained the body has mysteriously vanished

Idyllic country villages harbor sinister secrets in these darkly humorous contemporary mysteries. Stars John Nettles and Daniel Casey. " ... Darkly humorous ... hugely entertaining.. Tremendous fun ... highly recommended."--Library Journal.