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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I agree about the "Inverted Detective Story." With Columbo, the fun of the story is seeing how he figures out who did it and how. Especially when the guilty party is so confident that he/she will get away with it, while making so many tiny errors that reveal the truth.
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The genre was invented by R. Austin Freeman, whose books are in our ebook library here at MR.