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The TV series Columbo was a brilliant inversion of the British deceive story. Naturally, every story started with an upper-class murder, but from the start the
by timoth3y 1y ago
The TV series Columbo was a brilliant inversion of the British deceive story. Naturally, every story started with an upper-class murder, but from the start the audience was shown who the killer was and how the crime was committed.
The "mystery" was how the detective was going to figure it out.
- B1FF_PSUVM 1y agoIt's called an "inverted mystery", originated by R. Austin Freeman in 1909. There's a good piece on that form here: https://mysteriesahoy.com/2019/01/26/five-to-try-inverted-mysteries/ https://mysteriesahoy.com/2019/01/26/five-to-try-inverted-my...