A spy is killed on a lonely beach by his contact, but the killer has been photographed beforehand walking with the victim.

A woman shoots her overbearing brother, claiming she thought he was a burglar. Columbo doesn’t buy the self-defense claim – he know’s it’s murder.

The suspicious death of a Russian model leads the detectives to suspect medical malpractice.

Thomas is certain that Higgins is pulling some kind of prank when he supposedly meets Higgins’ illegitimate half-brother Elmo Ziller, a guitar-plucking, 10-gallon-hat wearing Texan rodeo owner. Elmo was rumoured…