Ah, there's nothing quite like settling in and getting cozy with a complicated British country-estate murder. In the BBC adaptation of Dorothy Sayers's detective novel, which also aired on PBS, the brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey brings his investigative talents to use close to home. His future brother-in-law is slain during a country retreat, and while there seems to be no shortage of possible ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Ian Carmichael, George Coulouris, Rachel Herbert, Anthony Ainley, Merelina Kendall
Directed By: Hugh David

"I'm investigating when a man died of natural causes," states aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, "but it's beginning to look more interesting everyday." So it is in this impeccably mounted 1972 BBC miniseries, which would make Dorothy L. Sayers's peerless literary creation proud. Ian Carmichael stars in his signature role as the stylish, cultured, and erudite Wimsey, whose investigation ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Ian Carmichael, John Quentin, Vivien Heilbron, Anna Cropper, Donald Pickering

Manufacturer: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Helen Mirren, Peter Capaldi, Michael Shannon, Greg Saunders, David Thewlis
Directed By: David Drury

The intoxicating chemistry and repartee between the oft-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles--America's favorite soused detectives--is fully 100-proof in the marvelously witty Thin Man movies. You simply won't find more delightful movie company than Nick and Nora. The title, of course, refers not to Nicky the dick, but to the mysteriously missing scientist he and his lovely ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke

Manufacturer: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Directed By: Edward Buzzell

"There is something going on in the organization that is very undesirable and might lead to serious consequences," reads a note that the ill-fated Victor Dean wrote to his superior just before he took a fatal fall down the metal staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. These darned suspicious circumstances lead Pym to hire Lord Peter Wimsey to determine whether Dean's death was an accident or murder or ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert, Peter Pratt, Robin Bailey
Directed By: Rodney Bennett

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers which chronicle the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue. Includes the mysteries: "Strong Poison," "Have His Carcass" and "Gaudy Night."

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter, Richard Morant, Sheila Burrell, Carol MacReady
Directed By: Christopher Hodson, Michael Simpson

In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighborhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis, Craig Fairbrass
Directed By: John Strickland