Durham County, Luther, and Murder She Wrote, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive selections of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling two series being released this week.

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Durham County stars Hugh Dillon as Mike Sweeney, a homicide detective who, after his partner is killed, moves his family from Toronto to rural Durham County.

In the second season of the series, Dillon has fallen for Penelope Verrity (Michelle Forbes), a forensic psychiatrist that he begins to suspect may have murdered her daughter.

The Durham County: Season Two DVD set of 2 discs contain the 6 episodes that originally aired during the summer of 2009.

A third season of 6 episodes began airing on CTV in Canada in October 2010.

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Idris Elba stars as Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, a self-destructive near-genius, who might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts in the BBC series Luther.

The series uses an inverted story format (a plot device most commonly employed by Columbo) in which the identity of the killer is known at the start of the episode.

The Luther: Series One DVD set of 2 discs contain the 6 episodes that originally aired during May and June 2010. The series began airing in the US on BBC America last month.

The network has ordered a second season of 6 episodes.

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The classic series Murder, She Wrote comes to a close with its twelfth season. Starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, the series aired on CBS from 1984 through 1996.

From the shadowy nooks of hometown Cabot Cove (Maine) to crime scenes as far away as Ireland and Australia, Jessica’s hot on the trail of some of the most deliberate criminals yet. With danger at every turn, Jessica will need all her wits and ingenuity to get safely to the final page.

The Murder, She Wrote: Season Twelve DVD set of 5 discs contain the 24 episodes that originally aired from September 1995 through May 1996.

This is not, however, the last we'll see of the beloved amateur sleuth: four made-for-television movies were produced and aired subsequent to the close of the series.

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