The Columbo Phile: A Casebook

GREGORY SIERRA DAVID CRASE .................................................... ALAN FUDGE SGT. younger ..................................................... PAUL SHENAR WOLPERT .......................................................... JACK BENDER safeguard shield ........................................... TED GEHRING eating place proprietor ....................................... VERN ROWE LAB TECHNICIAN ............................................... LEW PALTER LOCKSMITH ............................................... GEORGE BRENLIN PALMER ................................................................ J. S. JOHNSON WALTER ................................................... MAURICE MARSAC THE 3rd SEASON (1973—74) 169 aged guy ............................... JAMES MILLHOLLIN aged lady .................. MARGESTHER DENVER KRAMER ................................................... DAVIS ROBERTS PARKING ATTENDANT ............................. ROCKY FRIER Synopsis—Allen Mallory, the writer of 5 bestselling detective novels, has determined to go away Riley Greenleaf's publishing condo. His agent, Eileen McRae, has confident him that he can write critical fiction for rival writer Jeffrey Neal. Enraged via the defection, Riley hires demolitions specialist Eddie Kane to kill Allen. as well as accumulating on a massive lifestyles insurance coverage, Riley will ensure that Allen by no means writes for an additional writer. Riley secures Eddie's providers through promising that he will put up the military veteran's how-to publication on explosives. Riley provides Eddie a key to Allen's place of work and a pistol. The gun belongs to Riley and his fingerprints are all over the place it. the most important additionally belongs to Riley. After taking pictures Allen, Eddie is to drop either close to the scene of the homicide. The publisher's devious plan is to attract suspicion to himself after which demolish it with an hermetic alibi. Riley exhibits up at a publishing social gathering and makes what seem to be drunken threats. He staggers off to set up an alibi. Later that evening, whereas Eddie is capturing Allen, Riley is getting himself thrown out of a bar. He additionally will get into an twist of fate within the bar's parking zone. He insults a pair and tells them to name his coverage agent within the morning. Allen's physique is chanced on the subsequent morning. Riley, after all, is the early suspect. He made threats to Allen. The homicide weapon has his fingerprints on it. And his key used to be came upon close to the door of Allen's workplace. yet prior to the day is out, the couple will get in contact with Riley's assurance agent and confirms that he wasn't wherever close to Allen's workplace whilst the writer used to be shot. Lieutenant Columbo has to confess that it seems like an individual is out to border Riley for the writer's homicide. Riley tells Columbo that he had no proposal what Allen's most up-to-date booklet was once approximately. Eileen says the unconventional, Sixty Miles to Saigon, handled a prisoner of warfare in Vietnam. the tale was once so promising that common had bought the movie rights for Rock Hudson. The studio, although, did not want the relevant personality killed off, so Eileen steered another finishing appropriate to the writer.