![]() He tells her about the photograph and she says that Weinberg has been snooping around the art gallery several times under an assumed name. She is immediately suspicious of Columbo and suspects that he is an undercover policeman. On Saturday morning, Columbo visits Ferguson at her art gallery. Weinberg also tells Columbo about Geraldine Ferguson, owner of an art gallery and possessor of another fragment of the photograph. After a brief altercation, Columbo and Weinberg successfully exchange photo fragments and find that the pieces fit together, as expected. Weinberg is initially uneasy at working with "Artie," but goes along with his plan so that they can get a chance to recover the four million dollars for themselves. Columbo and Weinberg meet at a café, where Columbo introduces himself by the alias "Artie Stokes." He claims he got his fragment of the photograph from an ex-convict contact of his and wishes to exchange names and fragments with Weinberg. The chief authorizes Columbo to go undercover in order to investigate Mo Weinberg, a hardened criminal who is the first name on the list. In accordance with Krutch's advice, Columbo and Brown find another fragment of the photo hidden in Ehrbach's residence. According to Krutch, Lucia told him that the photograph will reveal the location of the missing money. He already has one, and believes the police will locate another at Ehrbach's home. Dillinger and Ehrbach both appear on the list, and Krutch believes that each listed person possesses a fragment of the photo. She left her sister Lucia a list of names, torn in half so as to render some of them illegible. He investigated the case for two years without any success, but reopened it a few months ago when Tony's widow Mary passed away. They got into a traffic accident and were killed in a police shootout shortly thereafter, but the money was nowhere to be found. The gang was led by infamous gangster Anthony "Tony the Nose" Bonamico, along with Leo D'Amore, Mikey Ryan, and David Stein. He explains that six years ago, a gang of four men robbed a local branch of the National Savings and Loan, making off with four million dollars. They are visited by an insurance investigator named Irving Krutch, who says he has information pertaining to the double homicide. On Thursday morning, Columbo analyzes the photo fragment along with Detective Sergeant Arthur Brown. It has been deliberately cut to resemble a jigsaw-puzzle piece. The police investigate the scene on Wednesday night, along with Columbo, who finds the photo fragment on Ehrbach's person. Dillinger returns and the two of them face each other, killing each other. Dillinger, and finds a fragment of a photograph in a hidden spot. Columbo's unassuming manner masks his keen intelligence and sharp investigative abilities.Ī small-time criminal named Eugene Edward Ehrbach breaks into the apartment of another small-time criminal, J.J. But it is Billy Connolly’s worthless ersatz villain in “Too many Notes” that truly marks the lowest point in the entire canon – not that you would guess that from Columbophile’s faint praise even (!) of the Gorbals unfunnyman… Maybe worse is to come in the very last instalment….but you know … I don’t think I can be bothered to even read about it.One in this series of police dramas in which Los Angeles homicide detective Lt. “Trace” is also fascinating as a worthy precursor of the CSI franchise, which not surprisingly completely overhauled & superceded tired old dross like the awful fag end of the Columbo run. Sweaty, sultry “A Bird in the Hand” is a massively better episode than he rates it, as is “A Trace of Murder” – a completely riveting re-working of Double Indemnity with an excellent suave murderer in the persona of Patrick Kinsley (David Rasche – an intelligent subtly charismatic, handsome presence, fit to have graced any of the classic episodes… contrary to what CP would have you believe). New readers should be aware that the long term strain of creating & maintaining this truly magnificent enterprise has clearly taken its toll on Columbophile, who, truth to tell, has stumbled badly in his judgments as he nears the finish line. Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star(1991). ![]() Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health(1991). ![]()
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