An aging musical film and stage star plans to come back from retirement, but her rich husband refuses to fund her comeback production, so she kills him and makes it look like a suicide. Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly solid alibi.
The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder, but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.
When a famous bullfighter's trusted bookkeeper turns up dead in a bullring, Lt. Columbo, who's spending vacation in Mexico, suspects murder with a bull as the murder weapon.
A popular stage magician murders his employer, who's been blackmailing him about his past, and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.