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Old 04-03-2025, 06:54 AM   #3719
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Cozy mystery where the culprit is obvious from the start so you have to spent 200-300 pages watching the protagonist helplessly bumble around trying to figure it out.
Invented in 1930s and famous on TV as Inspector Colombo, though on that the viewer was told the perpetrator at the start and Colombo wasn't inept. Did US TV think audiences were stupid?
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