When the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency is approached by famous fossil hunter Mary Anning the team know that this could be their most important case yet Mary Anning's precious dog has been snatched
- to get her back the kidnappers demand she lie about fake dinosaur bones & pretend they are genuine Now the Wollstonecraft detectives have just three days to track down the fossil fakers & save the integrity of science! The game is afoot blood-sucking leeches smoke bombs & diabolical disguises abound & behind the lies & fakery a genuine criminal may finally be revealed
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Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London & together with her faithful puppy Eddie she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery
- no matter what! In Book 5 of the Maisie Hitchins series Maisie is intrigued by a new lodger Mr Fred Grange who isn't quite what he seems Mr Grange claims to work as a clerk for a biscuit company but he's out & about on the London streets at odd hours & Maisie soon discovers something very precious hidden in his rooms Determined to unmask him as a thief she soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated
- & dangerous Before long Maisie & her friends are led into a web of mystery lurking underground A fantastic mystery series from best-selling author Holly Webb packed with adventure Maisie Hitchins is perfect for readers aged six to eight years

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Rumors revolving around The Book of Vanitas a clockwork grimoire of dubious reputation draw Noe a young vampire in search of a friend&s salvation to Paris What awaits him in the City of Flowers however is not long hours treading the pavement or rifling through dusty bookshops in search of the tome Instead his quarry comes to himin the arms of a man claiming to be a vampire doctor! Thrust into a conflict that threatens the peace between humans & vampires will Noe cast in his lot with the curious & slightly unbalanced Vanitas & his quest to save vampirekind? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

The masked ball has ended but the music plays on As Noe & Vanitas return disgraced from Altus the curtain rises on a new battle News of kidnapped curse-bearers sends the pair to the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris where a melody of intrigue echoes & a superhuman foe awaits! Humans or vampires Who will be the hunter & who the hunted? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

Now installed at a hotel in Paris with the help of Count Orlok No? & Vanitas take their awkward partnership on the roadto a vampire masquerade ball! The order of the evening may be small talk & hobnobbing with fellow guests but the mystery of the curse-bearers is never far behind Intrigue swirls as quickly as the dancers twirl a blue moon ascends over the guestsand all hell breaks loose! About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

' When you have eliminated all which is impossible then whatever remains however improbable must be the truth' In this the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures the intrepid detective & his faithful companion Dr Watson examine & solve twelve cases that puzzle clients baffle the police & provide readers with the thrill of the chase These mysteries
- involving an illustrious client & a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge & of the Lions Mane; a creeping man & the three-gabled house
- all test the bravery of Dr Watson & the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes the greatest detective we have ever known

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Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence' It rose with a steady movement I saw it pale & huge through the whirling funnel of cloud
- a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss It rose higher & higher Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it' Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder an Edwardian psychic detective investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as ' The Whistling Room' the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in ' The Horse of the Invisible' & the demons from the outside world in ' The Hog' Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge To complicate matters he encounters human skullduggery also Armed with a camera his Electric Pentacle & various ancient tomes on magic Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage These exciting & frightening stories have long been out of print Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series
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With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him' In The Casebook you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective They are perhaps the most unusual & the darkest that he penned Treachery mutilation & the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories along with atmospheric touches of the gothic involving a bloodsucking vampire crypts at midnight & strange bones in a furnace The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with The Red Circle' & the insidious murders in The Devil's Foot' The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all & his erstwhile companion Dr Watson ...

One hot summer's afternoon two abandoned infants are brought to Trisha & Mike Merry's door forlorn & afraid Their mother walked out on them (They don't remember her) Their grandmother tried but couldn't manage them & now their young father has given up on them too These cast-off kids desperately need somewhere to live & a family to love them They've come to the right place Trisha & Mike welcome them into their home & their hearts There are now ten children under five in this household where every day is filled with cuddles fun & more than a few challenges After ten eventful years of love & laughter they are reclaimed by their jealous mother a stranger who sets fire to their memories & sends them to a succession of care homes Finally the younger one sets out on a quest to find the only two people who have ever loved him ...

Cowboy Lincoln Costain (James Garner) finds himself shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island & helping widow Henrietta Mac Avoy (Vera Miles) turn her struggling potato farm into a prosperous cattle ranch in this Disney family movie However land baron Bryson (Robert Culp) wants all the land for himself & he holds Henrietta&s mortgage Actors James Garner Vera Miles Robert Culp Eric Shea Elizabeth Smith Directors Vincent Mc Eveety Writers Don Tait Hugh Benson Richard M Bluel Producers Christopher Hibler Ron Miller Winston Hibler Format PAL Language English Subtitles English Swedish Norwegian Danish Finnish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 Aspect Ratio 43
- 1331 Number of discs 1 Classification U Studio Walt Disney Studios HE DVD Release Date 5 April 2004 Run Time 91 minutes
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