When a psychopath commits murders based on novelist Castle's books, Detective Beckett seeks his help to solve the case. He decides to work with her and uses his experiences as research for his novels.
A local politician whose prized jackfruits go missing and a young police officer who is adamant to solve this bizarre case to prove herself.
The head of a private military think tank who's been embezzling funds from the institute murders a colleague who's been investigating him, while devising a watertight alibi. Lt. Columbo dismantles his alibi.
When a successful sex therapist with a best selling book and a hit TV show accidentally witnesses her business partner and lover cheating on her with an employee, she murders him. Lt. Columbo is on the case.
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
A Detective Inspector is transferred from London to the island of Saint Marie in the Caribbean.