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 ...

The genteel facade of London's Hampstead is shattered by a series of terrifying murders & the ensuing police hunt is threatened by internal politics & a burgeoning love triangle within the investigative team Pressurized by senior officers desperate for a result a new initiative is clearly needed but what? Intellectual analysis & police procedure vie with the gut instinct of "copper's nose" & help appears to offer itself from a very unlikely source a famous fictional detective A psychological profile of the murderer allows the police to narrow down their search but will Scotland Yard lose patience with the team before they can crack the case? This is an intelligent quirky & mannered crime drama above which hovers Hampstead a magical village evoking the elegance of an earlier time & the spirit of mystery-solving detectives" ...

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 ...

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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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play After the relatively commercial Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Luis Buñuel returned to the surrealist & political style of his earlier works with Death in the Garden La mort en ce jardin the middle film in what has been described as his revolutionary triptych a trilogy of films that study in the morality & tactics of armed revolution against a right-wing dictatorship Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost a band of fugitives a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal) a local hooker (Simone Signoret) a priest (Michel Piccoli) an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) & the miner&s deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon) are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle Starving exhausted & stripped of their old identities they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another Filmed in stunning Eastmancolor Death in the Garden is both a rousing adventure film & a surrealist tour de force The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this little seen classic for the first time ever on Blu-ray in a new Dual Format edition DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Stunning 1080p presentation (on the Blu-ray) Uncompressed PCM soundtrack (on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles A new interview with Tony Rayns An interview with actor Michel Piccoli An interview with film scholar Victor Fuentes Masters of Cinema exclusive trailer PLUS A booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp & archival imagery ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 18-year old Valerie & her mother Trudy live together in rural Oostdijk a quiet little village near Amsterdam When Trudy comes home one night she gets run over by a car Dead The autopsy reveals she has never bore a child Soon after more strange facts are beginning to turn up While police inspector Mellema hunts down the car driver Valerie starts searching for her real parents both leading to the same sad truth Actors Maayke Bouten Directors Vivian Pieters Language Dutch Number of discs 1 ...

Yorkshire 1927 Eclipse fever grips the nation & when beloved theatre star Selina Fellini approaches trusted sleuth Kate Shackleton to accompany her to a viewing party at Giggleswick School Chapel Kate suspects an ulterior motive During the eclipse Selina's friend & co-star Billy Moffatt disappears & is later found dead in the chapel grounds Kate can't help but dig deeper & soon learns that two other members of the theatre troupe died in similarly mysterious circumstances in the past year With the help of Jim Sykes & Mrs Sugden Kate sets about investigating the deaths
- & whether there is a murderer in the company When Selina's elusive husband Jarrod injured in the war & subject to violent mood swings comes back on the scene Kate begins to imagine something far deadlier at play & wonders just who will be next to pay the ultimate price for fame
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On a dark November evening Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street in a locked compartment The train slows & stops inside a tunnel; & by the time it emerges again minutes later Sir Wilfred has been shot dead his heart pierced by a single bullet Suicide seems to be the answer even though no motive can be found Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light in the tunnel caused the train to slow down Finding himself stumped by the puzzle Arnold consults his friend Desmond Merrion a wealthy amateur expert in criminology Merrion quickly comes up with an 'essential brainwave' & helps to establish how Sir Wilfred met his end but although it seems that the dead man fell victim to a complex conspiracy the investigators are puzzled about the conspirators' motives as well as their identities Can there be a connection with Sir Wilfred's seemingly untroubled family life his highly successful business or his high-handed & unforgiving personality? & what is the significance of the wallet found on the corpse & the bank notes that it contained? ...