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Gothic horror, madcap comedy, and an old-fashioned murder mystery coalesce perfectly in this chilling graphic novel. This book collects "Reflections in a Glass Scorpion" from Evil Eye #1-12. In Mad Night, his follow-up to The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala follows ace detective Judy Drood and her reluctant companion Kasper Keene as they try to unravel a string of mysterious occurrences and heinous murders in the usually tranquil Lone Mountain College. What is the sinister secret of Professor Massimo Ibex...

Because not all nighttime detective work involves tights and rooftops. Some involves your PJs and a computer.

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim -- a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must break the cycle before another...

An ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, and a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel (Liv Tyler) and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy (Matt Dillon). The pair leave together, but he ends up getting in a tussle with her criminal boyfriend, who she then shoots dead and subsequently persuades Randy to take the rap for her. But this isn't the end of it; both Randy's cousin Carl (Paul Reiser) and the detective assigned to the case (John Goodman) also fall for Jewel...

When she unknowingly picks the pocket of a man one night on the streets of Berlin, small-time crook Lena attracts the unwanted attention of Inspector Tom Serner, a young police detective involved in ongoing investigations into Lena’s victim, a known Russian mobster. Although she manages to escape Tom’s clutches, Lena’s personal situation becomes even more complicated when she later visits an underground nightclub and meets Louise, the club’s owner and the leader of a trio of female vampires that...

The Executive Producer of shows such as My Family, The Smoking Room & Two Pints will be showcasing his first project since his departure from the BBC .As well as Q&A, TriForce will be performing a reading of “The Inspector” by Micheal. A taught and passionate thriller set in the radiant and intriguing hubris that is Morroco. Beautifully realised by, The Inspector tells the tale of Mark, a retired detective who finds himself obsessively drawn to solving a kidnapping, but perhaps it is Mark himself...

In Alaska, somebody disappears every day. In Aleut, detective Kate Shugak's park, people have been falling off the grid quite a bit lately. And as she and state trooper Jim Chopin are about to realize, it's got something to do with the recent discovery of the world's second-largest gold mine in their very own backyard.

This is the series of detective novels by Andrea Camilleri, with Inspector Montalbano as main character. The stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily.

Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her stepdaughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection with the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

It's been three years since her family was murdered by a teacher obsessed with her, and Donna (Brittany Snow) is getting ready to go to the prom with her boyfriend, Bobby (Scott Porter). Now living with her aunt and uncle, Donna has just started having nightmares again about the tragedy, especially the part where she was hiding under the bed as she watched the teacher, Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech), kill her mother. On prom night, Detective Winn (Idris Elba, The Wire), who handled the original...

Will Ferrell's films are enjoyable on all levels and they tend to fire on all cylinders when Adam McKay is involved this box set brings together the comedy film making team. The Other Guys brings together a desk-jockey detective and his tough-talking partner as they get their moment to shine in this buddy police comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg directed by Adam McKay (Anchorman). In Talladega Nights Ricky Bobby (Will Farrell) - with his bleached-blonde wife cute sons Walker...

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It's been three years since her family was murdered by a teacher obsessed with her, and Donna (Brittany Snow) is getting ready to go to the prom with her boyfriend, Bobby (Scott Porter). Now living with her aunt and uncle, Donna has just started having nightmares again about the tragedy, especially the part where she was hiding under the bed as she watched the teacher, Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech), kill her mother. On prom night, Detective Winn (Idris Elba, THE WIRE), who handled the original...

She’s the vampire that could destroy a nation At least, that’s what detective Finn thinks of Tara Fox. He’s convinced she’s been sent to take out the president. She’s the most attractive assassin he’s ever faced, but that won’t keep him from his duty. Tara has always been caught between worlds.As a vampire born and raised in Key West, she has many friends among the humans. Friends that are fighting and dying in the Civil War. When her strange dreams began...

SHERLOCK HOLMES IN TERROR BY NIGHT (1946):Holmes is hired by Lady Margaret Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia a priceless diamond as it is transported to Scotland aboard the London to Edinburgh Express En route Lady Carstair's son is murdered and the diamond is stolen and everyone on board has their own secret agenda. The master detective must use all his powers of deduction to recover the jewel and bring the murderer to justice.SHERLOCK HOLMES IN DRESSED TO KILL (19...

Britain’s best-loved detective series enters a new era as DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) a cousin of the original detective moves in to fight crime in the beautiful but deadly villages of Midsomer. Peter Slim the ‘revenue man’ is found in a vat of cider at the Midsomer Abbas May Fayre. Slim was investigating the source of illicit alcohol known locally as ‘The Beast‘. However Barnaby and Jones believe there is more to Slim’s death than...

Double bill of British crime thrillers, containing Death Goes to School (Clarkson, 1953) and Night of the Prowler (Searle, 1962). In Death Goes to School, adapted from Maisie Sharman's novel Death in Seven Houses, Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls' school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing. Also stars Barbara Murray and Sam Kydd. In Night of the Prowler, Detective...

But the good is that, in spite of the bad translation and rotten reader, there is a really good police procedural in here. Irene Huss is a likeable character who does not suffer from the usual star detective maladies that afflict her male colleagues. She is happily married, has kids, and goes home at night to a house filled with children arguing and a husband cooking. Being written from a female perspective by a woman also adds a great deal to the feeling of Irene being a normal person with normal...

Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh) is a world famous private detective who specializes in the supernatural. Armed with an edgy wit and carrying an arsenal of silver and wood-tipped bullets, Dylan must track down a dangerous artifact before a war ensues between his werewolf, vampire and zombie clients living undercover in the monster infested backstreets of New Orleans.

Rod Steiger plays a small-town Mississippi sheriff who is forced to collaborate on a murder investigation with Virgil Tibbs, a black homicide detective from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier). The pair at first find themselves totally at odds with each other, but as the investigation proceeds each learns to respect the other's talents. The film won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger.

About this book When a small-time criminal is found dead, former homicide detective McCaleb is persuaded to profile the killer. Six years ago the victim had been arrested by Harry Bosch for murder but was later released uncharged. McCaleb picks up a clue the sheriffs missed, and discovers that the killer left a message at the crime scene - a message that seems to implicate Bosch...Meanwhile Bosch is in the midst of a high stakes trial being covered in the press by Jack McEvoy. Bosch was lead investigator...

Six original poems by well-known novelist Alexander McCall Smith (author of The No.1 Ladiesï Detective Agency series and many other novels) set to music by Tom Cunningham. An attempt to reveal some of that other Scotland - the Scotland that begins at dusk.World premieres given on 21st/22nd December 2007 in concerts given by Cappella Nova in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Her mother’s killer is on death row…or so Lily thought. The case is being reopened – by Detective John Tyler, the man who broke her heart the night of the murder. Only she can help him find the truth. But their reawakening passion is bound to be dangerous…

Details I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds. So I've seen them all: jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters. But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me, in my gut, like the body of Jennifer Rockwell. I say all this because I am part of the...

A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated.

When the LAPD asks criminal profiler Terrence McCaleb to help investigate a series of ritualized murders, he is reluctantly drawn away from his peaceful new life back into the horror of tracking a homicidal maniac. More horrifying, though, is that the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he knows and has worked with in the past--Detective Harry Bosch.

A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it`s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It`s been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history ...After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels - after Armageddon and the Flood - came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics...

Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception....

Billy's in the secure wing of the state hospital but ! he seems too wise for his age, not crazy, too knowing. About the nature of evil, and whether it lives on beyond death. Too knowing about other crimes that took place before he was born ! Other murders from twenty years ago surface in the mind of Detective John Calvino as he interviews young Billy Lucas.

The world of the undead is a vast one, with many stories remaining to be told. In 30 Days of Night: Juarez, Matt Fraction (Invincible Iron Man) introduces Lex Nova, former private detective and free-range madman, on the hunt for the bloodsuckers killing a whole mess of Mexican girls. IDW, paperback, 104 pages, published February 2009

'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds. So I've seen them all: jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters. But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me, in my gut, like the body of Jennifer Rockwell. I say all this because I am part of the story...