Catalog Search Results
2) The thin man
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
Another...
4) Crossfire
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Finlay is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Montgomery [is] a vicious bigot, a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S."--Container....
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
Series
Language
English
Description
"A debonair lawyer is suspected in the murder of a nosy newspaper columnist. Aided by a classy, sassy and marriage-minded partner, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises, and misdirections all without disarranging his dinner jacket or bruising his gin"--Container.
8) The verdict
Series
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard superintendent Grodman retires in disgrace when a man he helped convict is exonerated after being hanged. When someone commits the perfect crime, a locked-room murder, Grodman seeks to redeem himself by solving the case.
Series
Language
English
Description
Fast company: Who bumped of bibliophile Otto Brockler? Mystery turns a new page when bookdealers and amateur sleuths Joel and Garda Sloane (Melva Douglas, Florenc Rice) sift through clues and suspects.
Fast and loose: When a rare Shakespeare manuscript is stolen, the stage is set for murder.
Fast and furious: The Sloanes, rescuing a friend, are falsley accused of gunning down a shady beauty-pageant promoter.
11) Nightbreed
Series
Language
English
Description
"Boone may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates us from them and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. ... They are the Nightbreed, denizens of a world beyond death, beyond imagination, perhaps beyond anything you've seen."--Container.
12) Kid glove killer
Series
Language
English
Description
When ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer makes a deal with a gangster for future political favors, his first order of business is to kill the DA, a reformer who vowed to wipe out the rackets. Appointed special prosecutor, Ladimer keeps tabs on forensic scientist Gordon McKay, whose crime lab gathers the clues. So when the mayor begins to suspect the truth and is murdered before he can act, McKay digs up evidence that will lead to the lawyer, unless Ladimer...
13) Rancho Notorious
Series
Language
English
Description
A western, set in the 1870s, which dramatizes the ballad The legend of Chuck-A-Luck. The search of a Wyoming cowboy for his fiancée's murderer leads him to a ranch-hideaway for bandits which is operated by an ex-saloon entertainer.
14) Station west
Series
Language
English
Description
A film about Western mining town, a fortune in gold, a beautiful lady crime boss, and the undercover investigator sent to flush her out.
Series
Language
English
Description
Paige Townsen is a normal college girl working on her business degree who enjoys acting on the side. When a big movie franchise goes into production and opens its doors looking for the next "It" girl to play the lead role, Paige's roommates Cassie and Jake convince her to go to the open casting call. Never in her wildest dreams does she think she will even make it to the callbacks, but after an electric audition with Hollywood heartthrob Rainer Devon,...
Series
Language
English
Description
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Series
Language
English
Description
After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side.
Hard to handle: Con leads to con when the prize money for a rigged dance marathon is stolen.
Ladies they talk about: "Nan Taylor,...
19) Gallant sons
Series
Language
English
Description
High school sleuths prove solving a murder is mere child's play in this fast-paced whodunit. When his gambler father is wrongly convicted of murder, Johnny is determined to prove his dad's innocence. Following a series of clues that point to the real killer, Johnny and pals decided to stage a play that will force a confession and drop the curtain on a murderer.
Series
Language
English
Description
"Beside their nuptial promises, newlywed society sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and crime novelist Harriet Vane makes another vow: no more crime in their lives. Fat chance for that when the lovebirds and faithful butler Bunter arrive at the country cottage they've just purchased to find the overly attentive villagers disrupting their solitude, and the previous owner's body in the basement"--Container.