murder theme
The crime of unlawful and intentional homicide is featured.
401 total · 18 choice · 217 major · 165 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh2x29 | choice | The title is an allusion to the final burying place George and Mavis' victim. The story turns on George discovering the freshly murdered body of his mistress. A revelation of the story is that his seemingly oblivious wife, Mavis, perpetrated the crime. Mavis also shot Mr. Kirby dead to keep quiet George's sordid connection with the incident. |
| ahh3x08 | choice | Eva helped to murder George. Colin murdered both George and Eva. |
| ahp1x26 | choice | Alexander had been murdered and was posthumously trying to solve the riddle of whodunit. |
| ahp3x17 | choice | Tommy murdered an unsuspecting man in cold blood in order to prove his pet theory for how to murder someone and get away with it. |
| ahp3x34 | choice | The story turned on Jack taking pains to not get caught for having murdered his lover Phyllis' husband. |
| ahp3x38 | choice | The solicitor Henry Daw murdered his client, Miss Wilkinson, when she came requesting the money he'd been managing for her - the problem was he didn't have it to give back. |
| ahp5x18 | choice | The story concerned the murder of Matt and a sheriff's attempts to solve the crime. In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock was hammering out a rock he intended to chain someone's feet to. |
| columbo1971e10x12 | choice | The funeral director Eric Prince bludgeoned a gossip columnist who threatened to expose his crooked operation, and cremated the body as part of an elaborate plot to get away with the crime. One gathers that he would have gotten away with it had the pesky Lt. Columbo not been assigned to the case. |
| columbo1971e1x01 | choice | Ken Franklin and Jim Ferris formed a mystery writing duo. The plot turns on Columbo proving that Ken murdered Jim to keep him from going solo and exposing Ken as the less talented of the two. |
| columbo1971e1x02 | choice | The plot turns on Columbo proving the hard-nosed head of a private detective agency Carl Brimmer murdered the wife of a publishing magnate and dumped her body in a scrapyard. |