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Joseph Andrews

2001
Joseph, a footman in eighteenth-century England, must protect his virtue from the advances of several women, including Lady Booby, and Betty, a chambermaid.

Silas Marner

1996
A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns about the power of love after he loses his wealth and takes in an orphan girl who grows up and continues to care for him.

Sherlock Holmes

the hound of Baskervilles
2002
Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.

Great expectations

the graphic novel
2010
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

A Christmas carol

2012
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Finders

1995
When her grandfather dies on their way to his home in a small English village where she had hoped to learn about her birth mother, sixteen-year-old Helen begins to have disturbing visions and is asked to use her second sight to help a mysterious stranger.

Now you may weep

2003
Still getting over the depression caused by her miscarriage, Gemma accepts the invitation of a married friend, Hazel Cavendish, to attend a cooking weekend in Innesfree, Scotland. Gemma thinks the misty, atmospheric landscape of the Highlands, where fine whiskey is distilled and the brogues of the natives ring like music in the air, will be just what she needs to complete her recovery. However, Gemma's hopes are soon dashed by Hazel's revelation that she has come to Innesfree to meet her former lover, Donald Brodie, a handsome distillery owner. When someone shoots Donald dead, Hazel becomes a prime suspect.

Mourn not your dead

1996
An important and powerful policeman has been murdered, bludgeoned to death in his own kitchen. Few in suburban Surrey mourn the violent passing of Division Commander Alastair Gilbert, whose arrogance and cruelty were legendary in his village and in wider police circles; which only makes the job of Scotland Yard investigators Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James more difficult.

Leave the grave green

1995
When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline Asherton, is found floating in a Thames River lock, the circumstances eerily recall a strangely similar tragedy. Twenty years ago, the Ashertons' young son, Matthew, a musical prodigy, drowned in a swollen stream while in the company of his sister Julia -- Connor Swann's wife. The detectives quickly discover that Connor's death was no accident, and that nothing in the Asherton family is as it seems.

Kissed a sad goodbye

1999
When a young woman's body is found in East London's Mudchute Park, Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James are called in to investigate, and as the look into the woman's past, they find a long list of murder suspects who all have something to hide.

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