Universal Crime

The detective is put on the case of a man who murders his brother.

Columbo matches wits with a forensics specialist, helping his girlfriend to frame her husband for a stock broker's murder.

The inimitable cop must prove that a flamboyant Hollywood gossip reporter was murdered by her former lover.

A Hollywood film composer and conductor murders a talented, young musician out of jealousy.

Columbo investigates the apparent suicide of a tabloid reporter in the Los Angeles rave scene.

A psychiatrist uses a patient, he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife. His perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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