The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. A talent for life: Sordid affairs and financial secrets boil silently beneath the surface in the village of Malham Bridge until a double murder stirs the waters. Death and dreams: Investigating a string of deaths in Midsomer Worthy, Barnaby follows a trail of strange clues, nearly to his own demise. Painted in blood: When Joyce...

The beautiful wife of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in what appears to be a kidnapping for ransom.

Three hour-long mysteries. "The kidnapped prime minister": Poirot is called to solve the case when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations. "The adventure of the western star": Poirot is called to investigate when a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters. "How does your garden grow?" : An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant...

Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies is the odd man out in his small London police station. He cracks the tough cases anyway, with old-fashioned investigative work rather than violent confrontation.

Professor Ian Hood is recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective. Along with his female bodyguard, they take on such menaces as rogue cloners, ruthless polluters, and resurgent viruses.

Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the the detective himself.

The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.

Jack Frost is a non-nonsense detective whose unorthodox methods fuel the tension between him and his superiors. While Frost's rude behavior may label him boorish among his peers, the people of Denton know they can count on him when trouble arises.

A young heiress comes to Poirot because she 'thinks' she committed murder. When her former nanny apparently commits suicide, Poirot searches for the facts behind the case.