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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winningly clever and playful, this acclaimed Canadian series returns with new mysteries set in Edwardian-era Toronto. In Season Nine, Detective William Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, plan their dream home; Constable Crabtree faces dire consequences for his decisions; and Dr. Emily Grace experiences a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Inspector Brackenreid endures an eccentric houseguest, and a new morgue cleaner turned lab attendant brings fresh...
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch continues his inventive detective work with Ogden's unflinching support even after an investigation leads him to a family member that he never knew about.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Following the shocking cliffhanger last season, Station House Number Four attempts to clear Murdoch's name after he is arrested for murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller.
Author
Series
Spirits and thieves volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious book and ancient magic bring together four young people in modern-day Toronto and the ancient kingdoms of Mytica"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto's trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Detective William Murdoch uses emerging science such as ballistics and profiling to solve the most dreadful crimes in Victorian-era Toronto. Includes 13 episodes, behind-the-scenes featurette, photo gallery, cast filmographies, and character bios.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Cutting-edge Victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells.
113) People of the masks
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 10
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide and why were his victims forgotten? On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. Two child survivors lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen's University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty...
117) Away from Her
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007], �2006
Language
English
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention, taking on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite....