Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Follow the life & work of British detective Richard Poole (Ben Miller) who works for London&s Metropolitan Police After the death of a fellow police officer Poole is sent to a Caribbean island to investigate the death Age Rating 12 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Richard Poole&s untimely & tragic demise brings Humphrey Goodman to the beautiful island of Saint Marie as the new Detective Inspector But while he enthusiastically embraces Caribbean life his new team of Camille Dwayne & Fidel quickly realise they&ve got another eccentric & rather frustrating Englishman on their hand Humphrey&s apparently random & disorganised approach to solving crime initially seems confounding but it&s not long before they realise they have a remarkable detective in their midst
- one capable of solving his predecessor&s own baffling murder
- & together the team go on to brilliantly solve a host of dizzyingly mystifying murders from zombie film st&-ins to glamorous stewardesses & local politicians All in a day&s work when there&s death in paradise Actors Kris Marshall Ben Miller Sara Martins Danny John-Jules Gary Carr & Don Warrington Certificate 15 years & over Languages English

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play New series of popular BBC One drama Death in Paradise is back British detective inspector Kris Marshall is assigned to investigate a murder on the paradise island of Saint-Marie in the Caribbean ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play DI Humphrey Goodman & his team are back trying to solve the most baffling murders they&ve ever faced From a body found on a cricket pitch to a victim killed halfway up a volcano our detectives are led all over the beautiful island of Saint Marie
- with one case even taking them across the seas to London But it&s not just the crimes that are proving tough to crack Humphrey finds himself navigating the course of true love when Martha returns to visit him Florence is forced to deal with feelings of guilt over an old school friend & while Dwayne encounters a long forgotten person from his past JP is in need of a little marriage counselling With some exciting surprises in store the sixth series of this hugely popular show is even more fun & entertaining than ever as Humphrey & co race to unravel more puzzling mysteries in the glorious Caribbean sunshine
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The first two series of the BBC crime drama starring Ben Miller DI Richard Poole is sent to the stunning Caribbean Island of Saint Marie to solve an impossible murder He hates sun sea & sand but he knows once he’s solved the murder he’ll be heading back to wonderful cold drizzly London Or will he? With the help of unorthodox Dwayne ambitious Fidel & the instincts of the beautiful Sergeant Camille Bordey they tackle an array of unique murders As Richard’s relationship with both the island & Camille develops will he at last find his place in the world? Age Rating 12 ...

A dance with death After the final curtain of Swan Lake an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement But outside the scene is somber A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen The crowd is silenced by a single cry
- " Nemetseva is dead!" Among the theatergoers is Lady Emily accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment from the Crown But it soon becomes clear that Colin isn't the only one with work to do When the dead ballerina's aristocratic lover comes begging for justice Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star's murderer Her investigation takes her on a dance across the stage of Tsarist Russia from the opulence of the Winter Palace to the modest flats of ex-ballerinas & the locked attics of political radicals A mysterious dancer in white follows closely behind making waves through St Petersburg with her surprise performances & trail of red scarves Is it the sweet Katenka Nemetseva's childhood friend & favorite rival? The ghost of the murdered etoile herself? Or something even more sinister?
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In " Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway shares the sights the sounds the excitement & above all the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain & the bullfight This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot violent afternoons ...

A fascinating look at the history & grandeur of bullfighting Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice & bravery sport & tragedy & is enlivened throughout by Hemingway&s pungent commentary on life & literature Seen through his eyes bullfighting becomes an art a richly choreographed ballet with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace & cunning ...

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane From seat No 9 Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers Over to his right sat a pretty young woman clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No 13 sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No 8 a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him in seat No 2 sat the slumped lifeless body of a woman ...

EU inspectors are causing havoc in St Denis & local tempers are running high but is it really cause for murder? The first acclaimed & internationally bestselling case for Bruno Chief of Police' Hugely enjoyable & absolutely gripping Martin Walker has got off to a flying start in what promises to be a great series Bruno will be the Maigret of the Dordogne' Antony Beevor Market day in the ancient town of St Denis in south-west France EU hygiene inspectors have been swooping on France's markets while the locals hide contraband cheese in their houses & call the Brussels bureaucrats ' Gestapo' Police Captain Bruno Courreges supports their resistance Although here in what was once Vichy France words like ' Gestapo' & 'resistance' still carry a profound resonance When an old man head of an immigrant North African family is found murdered suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia But Bruno isn't convinced & suspects this crime may have its roots in that most tortured period of recent French history
- the Second World War a time of terror & betrayal that set brother against brother Now it's up to him to find the killer
- but will the people of St Denis allow him to go digging through the past in order to do it?

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