Jack Cassidy is a perennial veteran of Columbo episodes especially as the chief suspect in murdering his prize writer, a mystery writer, who would be stolen by Mariette Hartley's character. I never really liked Mariette Hartley's acting or personally and I don't know why but she has been in a few episodes of Columbo. Mickey Spillane plays the victim writer. Anyway unlike Murder by the Book which features Jack Cassidy as a writer who offs his partner, he gets somebody else to do the crime because the writer wants to go legitimate and break his contract but to Jack's character, he's the star writer and makes him a lot of money and he would go broke. Rather than do the murder himself, his character gets drunk and involved in a car accident and arrested by the police and spends the night in a drunk tank. Anyway, Columbo always gets his guy or gal so he gets him in the end. It's how that's the question.
Review of Publish or Perish
