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Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
4) Hush-hush
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 56
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is settling in for some downtime in New York City when an anonymous enemy makes himself known. This nameless foe's threats hit close to home, and before Stone can retaliate, the fearsome messages turn into very real consequences. With the help of old friends--and a lovely new tech-savvy acquaintance--Stone sets out to unravel the fatal agenda. But as the web of adversaries expands, Stone realizes that no place is safe, and he'll...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest installment in this mystery series. November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
8) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki. Palmer is suspicious of the flask and his friend's motives.
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson Welles...
12) Born to be bad
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A childless couple agree to take a boy into their home after his mother is declared unfit. The mother is determined to take advantage of the man and tries to blackmail him. In the end, selfless love and charity are celebrated in this heartwarming movie.
13) Cisco Pike
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A once famous rock singer is released from prison where he served time for drug dealing. He wants to go straight but is blackmailed by a crooked cop and is forced back into the drug dealing business.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
15) Misconduct
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
16) Concrete cowboys
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisiton Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two men escaping a "fixed" card game hop a train to Nashville. They are mistaken for detectives, hired to find a missing sexy singer and find themselves embroiled in a complex blackmail scheme.
17) Thin ice
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for one big score to get him out of frigid Wisconsin. But Mickey's clever con spirals out of control when an unstable locksmith turns the tables and raises the stakes higher than Mickey ever imagined.
18) Run & gun
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the 'burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, Ray finds himself wounded and on the run from ruthless assassins who will stop at nothing to get what he has. Now, with the lives of his loved ones hanging in the balance and danger at every turn, Ray's...
19) Tokyo Joe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An ex-war hero returns to Tokyo to search for his missing wife and daughter.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
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