Manufacturer: Madacy Records
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Leslie Banks
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

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

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang (II), Polly Adams
Directed By: Julian Amyes, David Tucker, Norman Stone

The Sanctuary Sparrow, One Corpse Too Many, Monk's Hood and The Leper of St. Giles.

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Anthony Green, Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley, Michael Culver
Directed By: Graham Theakston, Sebastian Graham Jones

A Perfect Spy is a captivating, straight-ahead adaptation of John Le Carré's novel about the development of a Cold War double agent, Magnus Pym, whose life since childhood has taught him the art and elements of deceit. Peter Egan (Bean: The Movie) plays the adult Pym, raised in part by his con-man father, Rick (Ray McAnally), and the latter's community of accomplices. Stranded in ...

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Sarah Badel, Fiona Mollison, Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Alan Howard
Directed By: Peter Smith

Never tell Brother Cadfael, the medieval mystery-solving monk, your theory of how a crime "must" have been committed. "We must always be wary of 'must,'" he states. "Nothing is certain." And so attest these three divine mysteries based on the books by Ellis Peters and originally broadcast in the U.S. on the PBS series Mystery! Each feature-length episode in this boxed set is ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman, Mark Charnock
Directed By: Herbert Wise, Malcolm Mowbray, Richard Stroud, Sebastian Graham Jones

Dame Christie's most popular character, prim and proper Miss Jane Marple, is adored worldwide by mystery fans for her razor-sharp mind, intuitive understanding of criminal behavior, and trademark knitting needles. Enjoy four feature-film adaptations of Miss Marple's greatest mysteries in one collectible 2-pack. It's hours of great whodunnits for all ages.

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman, Norman Rodway, Elizabeth Garvie
Directed By: Christopher Petit, John Davies, Martyn Friend, Norman Stone

"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

" He's charming, handsome and brilliant and not to be trusted for a second. He's Ian McShane as Lovejoy, the disreputable antiques dealer whose ability to spot a genuine antique at a glance is rivaled only by his rare knack for getting into trouble. Clad in his trademark black leather jacket, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, Lovejoy scours the countryside in search of valuable antiques ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Terence Dackombe

"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