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Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar. by Yates, Sam,film director.; Waugh, Bronagh,actor.; Deam, Jack,actor.; Hauer-King, Jonah,actor.; Kingsley, Katherine,actor.; Marshal, Lyndsey,actor.; Ali, Waj,actor.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Bronagh Waugh, Jack Deam, Jonah Hauer-King, Katherine Kingsley, Lyndsey Marshal, Waj AliOriginally produced by PBS in 2019.This film imagines what might have happened to the author Agatha Christie. 1928: It has been two years since the sensation caused by her eleven-day disappearance and Agatha arrives in Baghdad seeking culture and peace. What she finds is Max -- an attractive young archaeologist with a bullet wound. With Jonah Hauer-King, Bronagh Waugh, Jack Deam and Lyndsey Marshal as Agatha Christie.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures, British.; Historical films.; Nineteen twenties.; Detective and mystery films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Cahokia jazz : a novel / by Spufford, Francis,1964-author.;
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But the corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets, either to destruction or to rebirth"--
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Noir fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Nineteen twenties; Secrecy;
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Ghost Hunter. by Pillai, Alex,film director.; Theobold, Cara,actor.; Bolt, Josh,actor.; Reeves, Lewis,actor.; Spall, Rafe,actor.; Campbell, Richie,actor.; Stanton, Sophie,actor.; All3Media International (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Cara Theobold, Josh Bolt, Lewis Reeves, Rafe Spall, Richie Campbell, Sophie StantonOriginally produced by All3Media International in 2015.Harry Price is a thirty-something, self-professed psychic researcher, famous for exposing the tricks of fraudulent spiritualists in 1920s London. When Price is presented with an opportunity to clear his name of his own charlatan connotations and perhaps also help a vulnerable woman, the wife of a prominent politician plagued by ghosts in her own home, he approaches with trepidation. Harry Price knows all too well that the ghosts of our past are more terrifying than anything supernatural.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Motion pictures, British.; Historical films.; London (England).; Ghosts.; Nineteen twenties.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / by Hannah, Sophie,1971-author.; Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Disinheritance; Nineteen twenties; Private investigators; Women authors;
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Closed casket [sound recording] : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / by Hannah, Sophie,1971-author.; Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968-narrator.; Christie, Agatha,1890-1976,creator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Women authors; Disinheritance; Nineteen twenties;
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The last note of warning / by Schellman, Katharine,author.;
"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo, even if she can't quite forget the allure of the Nightingale's sultry owner, Honor Huxley. Then the husband of a wealthy client is discovered dead in his study, and Vivian was the last known person to see him alive. With the police and the press both eager to name a culprit in the high-profile case, she finds herself the primary murder suspect. She can't flee town without endangering the people she loves, but Vivian isn't the sort of girl to go down without a fight. She'll cash in every favor she has from the criminals she calls friends to prove she had no connection to the dead man. But she can't prove what isn't true. The more Vivian digs into the man's life, and as the police close in on her, the harder it is to avoid the truth: someone she knows wanted him dead. And the best way to get away with murder is to set up a girl like Vivian to take the fall"--
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Nightclubs; Nineteen twenties; Prohibition; Women;
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The last drop of hemlock / by Schellman, Katharine,author.;
"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence ... until the night Vivian learns that her friend Bea's uncle, a bouncer at the Nightingale, has died. His death is ruled a suicide, but Bea isn't so convinced. She knew her uncle was keeping a secret: a payoff from a mob boss that was going to take him out of the tenements and into a better life. Now, the money is missing. Though her better judgment tells her to stay out of it, Vivian agrees to help Bea find the truth about her uncle's death. But they uncover more than they expected when rumors surface of a mysterious letter writer, blackmailing Vivian's poorest neighbors for their most valuable possessions, threatening poison if they don't comply. Death is always a heartbeat away in Jazz Age New York, where mob bosses rule the back alleys and cops take bootleggers' hush money. But whoever is targeting Vivian's poor and unprotected neighbors is playing a different game. With the Nightingale's dangerously lovely owner, Honor, worried for her employees' safety and Bea determined to discover who is responsible for her uncle's death, Vivian once again finds herself digging through a dead man's past in hopes of stopping a killer"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Extortion; Murder; Nightclubs; Nineteen twenties; Prohibition; Women;
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All things under the moon : a novel / by Choi, Ann Y. K.,author.;
"Pachinko meets Beasts of a Little Land in this stunning, evocative tale, set in 1920s Korea, of one seemingly ordinary woman--living under Japanese occupation--who rises from illiterate villager to reluctant revolutionary to one of the voices of her generation."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Families; Identity (Psychology); Nineteen twenties; Young women;
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Miss Fisher's murder mysteries. [videorecording] / by Coleman, Elizabeth(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Cummings, Ashleigh,1992-actor.; Davis, Essie,actor.; Johnstone-Burt, Hugo,actor.; Page, Nathan,1973-actor.; Tilse, Tony,television director.; television adaptation of (work):Greenwood, Kerry.Phryne Fisher mystery.; Australian Broadcasting Corporation,presenter.; Every Cloud Productions,production company.; RLJ Entertainment,publisher.; Screen Australia,presenter.;
Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes, Tammy MacIntosh.A stylish and sexy period mystery stars Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher, a glamorous lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. In 'Murder under the Mistletoe," Phryne's Christmas in July turns deadly when trapped inhabitants at a snowed-in mountain lodge find themselves being killed off according to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Christmas television programs.; Television crime shows.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fisher, Phryne (Fictitious character); Nineteen twenties; Murder; Christmas; Women private investigators;
For private home use only.
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City of flickering light / by Fay, Juliette,author.;
"It's July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth-- iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating-- and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn't come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life" --
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Motion picture industry; Burlesque (Theater); Silent films; Friendship; Nineteen twenties;
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