murder theme

The crime of unlawful and intentional homicide is featured.

401 total · 18 choice · 217 major · 165 minor

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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.