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With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin, laughter, and inhuman...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
3) Blue velvet
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Each time Batman joins forces with another superhero, he assumes more than just his superhero persona. While working with a partner helps bag the criminals, it tends the make Batman even edgier. Batman battles with a crazed scientist intent on ruling the world; a crazed sorceress intent on ruling medieval England; and crazed teenagers.
6) Perras
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"...[U]n thriller, una montaña rusa emocional que revela la ética, la estética y la erótica de diez jóvenes sospechosas de una falta imperdonable...Descubre el universo femenino adolescente al microscopio"--Container.
Ten girls are being detained in their high school under suspicion that one of them committed an atrocious crime. Until someone confesses, none of them can leave.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Martial artist and Texas Ranger Cordell Walker, one of the last old-fashioned heroes of the West, is a protective friend but a relentless foe who will stop at nothing to bring a criminal to justice. Walker works on instinct, often drawing on the traditions of his Native American ancestors. His partner, James Trivette, has a more modern approach to crime-solving. C.D. Parker, a retired Ranger, and Alex Cahill, the county assistant district attorney...
9) Watchmen
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English
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In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging...
10) Murder she said
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling clues to a manor house inhabited by a quarrelsome family.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Famous mystery novelist Richard Castle and NYPD detective Kate Beckett return for the suspenseful third season of ABC's brilliantly funny series. Enjoy every inspired idea and flirtatious moment as this fiery duo solves the strangest homicides New York has to offer. It's the most entertaining season yet as Castle's wildly funny storytelling skills work their way into every case.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior--both of which still haunt him decades later"--www.imdb.com.
"Benjamín Espósito acaba de jubilarse después de una vida entera como empleado de un juzgado penal. Tiene un sueño largamente postergado: escribir una novela. Para narrarla no pretende inventar nada, al contrario, contraréa...
14) Murder ahoy
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
One of Britannia's ships is manned by a crew of delinquents trying to build new lives, but their old lives figure in this cunning mystery.
15) Murder most foul
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
No matter what's on the playbill, the shabby Cosgood Players seem to specialize in mysteries as members of the troupe shuffle off this mortal coil in alarmingly rapid succession.
16) Dead men tell
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Dead men tell: Charlie Chan teams up with his number two son, Jimmy, to solve a mystery that takes place aboard a ship bound for a treasure hunt. Using a map, Charlie has to solve the mystery before they all wind up in Davy Jones' locker. Charlie Chan in Rio: Charlie Chan and his number two son, Jimmy, must crack the mystery of a beautiful nightclub singer who turns up dead after announcing her plans to elope with a wealthy American playboy.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
CSI investigator Barry Allen is endearingly book-smart, somewhat awkward late and, as a result of a scientific experiment gone awry, the fastest man alive. Zigzagging through the action-packed new series from the creative team behind Arrow and based on the supersonic DC Comics character. With his life shadowed by his mother₂s murder and his father wrongly convicted of the crime, Barry finds that his newfound power of super speed grants him the ability...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Patrick Jane is a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serieal killer called Red John. Devasted, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis. These talents make him appear psychically gifted and helps him bring killers to justice. At crime scenes across California, Patrick now helps an elite team of detectives break their toughest...
19) Public enemies
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
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