The Columbo Phile: A Casebook

Front Cover......Page 1
Author's Note......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 14
Selected Quotes......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Foreword......Page 13
PART I: The Plot Thickens or How Columbo Found NBC......Page 21
Levinson & Link (or Is It Link & Levinson?): The Men Behind the Raincoat......Page 24
Filling the Raincoat......Page 29
CASE # 1: PRESCRIPTION: MURDER......Page 33
CASE # 2: RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN......Page 42
The Good Lieutenant......Page 22
PART II: The First Season (1971-72)......Page 48
CASE # 3: MURDER BY THE BOOK......Page 56
CASE # 4: DEATH LENDS A HAND......Page 63
MEMORABLE EXCHANGES ABOUT COLUMBO'S CAR......Page 69
CASE # 5: DEAD WEIGHT......Page 71
CASE # 6 : SUITABLE FOR FRAMING......Page 77
CASE # 7: LADY IN WAITING......Page 82
CASE # 8: SHORT FUSE......Page 87
CASE # 9: BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER......Page 91
Summing Up the First Season......Page 95
PART III: The Second Season (1972-73)......Page 98
CASE #14: REQUIEM FOR A FALLING STAR......Page 123
Summing Up the Second Season......Page 144
CASE #17: DOUBLE SHOCK......Page 139
CASE #16: THE MOST DANGEROUS MATCH......Page 134
CASE #15: A STITCH IN CRIME......Page 129
CASE #13: DAGGER OF THE MIND......Page 117
CASE #12 : THE MOST CRUCIAL GAME......Page 112
CASE #11: THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE......Page 108
CASE #10: ETUDE IN BLACK......Page 103
PART IV: The Third Season (1973-74)......Page 146
CASE #18 : LOVELY BUT LETHAL......Page 150
CASE #19: ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM......Page 154
CASE #20: CANDIDATE FOR CRIME......Page 161
CASE #21: DOUBLE EXPOSURE......Page 166
CASE #22: PUBLISH OR PERISH......Page 172
CASE #23: MIND OVER MAYHEM......Page 177
CASE #24 : SWAN SONG......Page 182
CASE #25 : A FRIEND IN DEED......Page 187
Summing Up the Third Season......Page 193
PART V: The Fourth Season (1974-75)......Page 194
CASE #26: AN EXERCISE IN FATALITY......Page 199
CASE #27: NEGATIVE REACTION......Page 204
CASE #28 : BY DAWN ' S EARLY LIGHT......Page 209
CASE #29: TROUBLED WATERS......Page 215
CASE #30: PLAYBACK......Page 220
CASE #31: A DEADLY STATE OF MIND......Page 224
Summing Up the Fourth Season......Page 230
PART VI: The Fifth Season (1975-76)......Page 231
CASE #32 : FORGOTTEN LADY......Page 234
CASE #33: A CASE OF IMMUNITY......Page 238
CASE #34: IDENTITY CRISIS......Page 242
CASE #35: A MATTER OF HONOR......Page 247
CASE #36: NOW YOU SEE HIM......Page 250
CASE #37 : LAST SALUTE TO THE COMMODORE......Page 255
Summing Up the Fifth Season......Page 260
PART VII: The Sixth Season (1976-77)......Page 261
CASE #38: FADE IN TO MURDER......Page 263
CASE #39 : OLD FASHIONED MURDER......Page 267
CASE #40 : THE BYE-BYE SKY HIGH I.Q. MURDER CASE......Page 272
Summing Up the Sixth Season......Page 277
PART VIII: The Seventh Season (1977-78)......Page 278
CASE #41 : TRY AND CATCH ME......Page 281
CASE #42: MURDER UNDER GLASS......Page 286
CASE #43 : MAKE ME A PERFECT MURDER......Page 290
CASE #44: HOW TO DIAL A MURDER......Page 295
CASE #45: THE CONSPIRATORS......Page 300
The End of the Trail......Page 304
PART IX: After Columbo......Page 305
Falk Talk......Page 306
The Star, the Producers and the Story Editors After Columbo......Page 308
Mrs. Columbo or Kate Loves a Mystery or Viewers Hate Kate......Page 311
Late Night Columbo......Page 313
More Columbos......Page 314
PART X: Viva Columbo!......Page 318
COLUMBO AT THE EMMYS......Page 319
COLUMBO IN PRINT......Page 320
A COLUMBO CHARACTER SKETCH......Page 321
THE REAL MRS. COLUMBO......Page 324
MULTIPLE APPEARANCES ON COLUMBO......Page 325
CLASSIC COLUMBO LINES......Page 328
HOW THE MURDERERS SEE COLUMBO......Page 335
COLUMBO TRIVIA......Page 339
Bibliography......Page 341
Index......Page 343
Back Cover......Page 351