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Columbo: Publish or Perish (1974)
Episode 5, Season 3
Nonsensical plot twists ruin it (SPOILER ALERT)
9 March 2015 - 6 out of 12 users found this review helpful.
The weakest of Jack Cassidy's three episodes. The writing is poor. Jack Cassidy's character gets caught because Columbo tricks him into have a key made. Makes absolutely no sense. The possibility of the door being unlocked or open is never brought up. Also, Cassidy would know if the lock on the door was really changed then the killer would not have left the other key on the ground to frame him. The fact that Cassidy did not have a key to the new lock cleared him of the murder. Ironically, Columbo doesn't check the typewriter ribbon of the second victim like he does in the final Cassidy episode later on. Weak and silly ending to this one.
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