I love goofy detective men.

Based on my previous post on Boone’s tan lines…..

These are book covers for Japanese novelizations of Columbo episodes. On eBay:

Negative Reaction - Written in Japanese. This Futami Bunko The Mystery Collection paperback edition of Negative Reaction is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Naoaki Iijima is the translator.

Death Hits the Jackpot - Written in Japanese. This paperback edition of Death Hits the Jackpot is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Ken Asamatsu is the translator. It is a Japanese mystery novel.

Columbo Goes to the Guillotine - Written in Japanese. This paperback edition of Columbo Goes to the Guillotine is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Hiroshi Okubo is the translator. It is part of the Futami Bunko The Mystery Collection.

I recently bought David Koenig's excellent Unshot Columbo, and reading through all the stories that never made it to filming, one—Roar Of The Crowd—really surprised me: I was _sure_ I watched that one, back in the eighties or nineties.