From the moment he shuffled onto television screens in a rumpled raincoat, cigar dangling from his fingers, Columbo—in the form of actor Peter Falk—announced that he was going to play by different ...

Detective mystery drama Elsbeth has announced some new guest stars for its ongoing third season. A spin-off of The Good Wife and The Good Fight, the series sees Carrie Preston reprise the role of ...

There’s this beat early in every Columbo episode — that quiet pocket of time right after the killer fixes one last detail, the sort of tiny adjustment a person only makes when they’re convinced the ...

Detective Chimp is one of the stranger characters in DC Comics. Despite this, even Batman acknowledges him as the true “World’s Greatest Detective.” However, to help out his old Justice League Dark ...

While not the first to do it, Columbo is the best-known example of the "howcatchem" mystery series, inspiring series like Elsbeth or Poker Face, where an eccentric character pieces together the clues ...

From 1968 through 1978, and then again from 1989 to 2003, the rich and powerful, the haughty and the vain, all feared one man; a man who looked like he had forgotten to comb his hair and couldn’t ...