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Ransom for a Dead Man

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) outwits a lawyer (Lee Grant) who has killed her husband but made it look like a kidnapping.

Columbo

A blackmailer interferes with a mystery writer's scheme to kill his former partner in a perfect crime.

Columbo

Columbo investigates the case of an unfaithful wife who was murdered when she refused to be blackmailed.

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Columbo

No body, no weapon and a witness courted by the war hero she thinks committed murder, complicate a case.

Columbo

Columbo is caught in a case of stolen art and murder with evidence pointing to an innocent woman.

Columbo

A competition between bitter siblings for ownership of a family-owned corporation, after their father's untimely death, escalates into murder.

Columbo

An explosion kills an executive as he calls his wife from a car phone, and suspicion falls on a company attorney.

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Columbo

Columbo excavates the area surrounding the newly poured foundation of a building to search for a corpse.

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Columbo

A botanical collector involves his nephew in a kidnapping to break a trust fund, then murders him to finance his hobby.

Columbo

The mistress of a conductor becomes a target for murder after threatening to tell all to her lover's wife.

Columbo

A football-team manager (Robert Culp) establishes an electronic alibi for the murder of the team owner (Dean Stockwell) during a game; guests Valerie Harper, Susan Howard, James Gregory, Dean Jagger.

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Universal Crime