Kevin Whately
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Entry wounds: Hathaway starts work on his first murder case as an inspector with the help of a new partner, DS Lizzie Maddox. but as the pair delve into the worlds of neurosurgery, blood sports, and animal rights, Hathaway's theories are challenged by alarming new developments. He realizes he needs the insight of the retired Lewis to close the case.
The lions of Nemea: Lewis, Hathaway, and Maddox's abilities as a team are severely tested when they...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death in 2000 of his eponymous mentor in Inspector Morse, Sergeant Lewis was promoted to Inspector and took a two-year sabbatical in the British Virgin Isles. Newly widowed, he now returns to Oxford and soon finds himself in charge of his own murder case. But it is notes that Morse made on an earlier case which help Lewis solve his case.
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (288 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy is an ex-cop turned insurance investigator whose cunning and insight are well-suited to the business of exposing con men and fraudsters. With his police training, he's able to take on any case, no matter how dangerous. Fresh off a divorce and a breakup with his colleague and mistress, Jimmy still hasn't learned when to shut his wandering eyes and turn off his rakish charm. As he struggles to rebuild his family, keeping them safe from the perils...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Inspector Morse television series, starring the late John Thaw, Inspector Morse's Oxford revisits many of the wonderful locations and buildings that were featured in the series.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 4 hr., 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway investigate the suspicious deaths of a research fellow from Oxford's Department of Psychology and a former biochemistry professor, while during Hathaway's time off, Lewis and Constable Alex Gray look into the questionable mix-up at a crematorium.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis, protâegâe of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis and his partner, the enigmatic detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the idyllic Oxford countryside and colleges in five new thrillers, forcing the pair to revisit the past and to reconsider the future.
Pub. Date
[2004?], c1996
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oxford's favorite detectives Lewis and Hathaway return for the eighth and final series of the hit series. Investigating the city's most complex and intriguing crimes, Lewis clashes with the new Chief Superintendent, who questions his traditional approach. Will Lewis decide to call time on his policing career? Meanwhile, Hathaway is forced to confront his past.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protâegâe of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis...
19) Room at the Top
Author
Description
Braine's first and most successful novel of working-class 'angst' and the struggle of 'angry young man' Joe Lampton to climb the social ladder by whatever means possible.
The story of an ambitious young man, Joe Lampton, of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. He is determined to make something of himself, targeting a high-paid job. He notices a young man with an expensive...