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Originally Posted by Apache
But Colombo wasn't about figuring out whodunit. It was watching him stalk his unsuspecting prey. 
Apache |
Yes, I do actually know that - I was making a joke
. "Colombo" is an example of what's called the "inverted detective story", where the reader knows "whodunnit", and the book is about how the detective figures it out. The genre was invented by the British author R. Austin Freeman in his 1912 collection of short stories, "The Singing Bone".