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"Miles Cullen discovers how interesting life can be when he is transformed from mild-mannered bank teller into daring, ingenious bank robber in a matter of seconds. Held up at the bank by the criminal Reikle, Miles manages to stash most of the money in a safety deposist box first. When Reikle realizes he's been shortchanged, he plans to take revenge, and a great battle of wits ensues. To keep the money, Miles reaches new heights of courage, seducing...
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Set during the early China trade when epic adventurers carved dynasties out of barren rock and the opium trade pitted father against son, and friends against one another. For trader Dirk Struan, the silver and opium exchange is almost impossible to resist, but everything comes to a head when he is forced to choose between the ones he loves and profit beyond his imagination.
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Florence Nightingale is an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, she was scorned by her community and was faced with great opposition for her new way of thinking. However, through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,'...
7) Payday
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Maury Dann, a country singer on tour, liberally indulges in drugs, alcohol, and sexual relations with willing women. But when the angry boyfriend of a woman with whom he's had a liason spots Maury, suddenly he has a big problem.
8) Tai-Pan
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Dirk Struan is the savage Scottish leader of the dominant merchant chiefs, or Tai-Pans, who trade the South China Sea. His goals are to make Hong Kong the greatest merchant empire of all, to take his slave for his lady, and to make China his glorious new world.
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Disc one: When a woman with the controlling interest in a magazine disappears before a business meeting, Columbo is ready to throw the book at her partner. A man with strong political connections and a strong motive for murder is the last person to see a supposed suicide victim alive.
Disc two: Columbo's case is personally and deadly serious when the wife of a man he helped put in prison is on a quest for revenge. Columbo gets to the root of the...
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Columbo goes to the guillotine: "There's much more than meets the eye when Columbo investigates the death of a magician who supposedly was killed by one of his own clever magic tricks"--Container.
Murder, smoke and shadows: "Columbo searches for clues on the cutting-room floor when he suspects a high-powered film director of hiding evidence of murder"--Container.
Sex and the married detective: "Does the heart rule the head, or vice versa? Columbo...