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Columbo Under Glass examines the Good Lieutenant from every angle. It notes the “First Clues” Columbo finds that set him on the trail of the murderer and the “Final Clue” with which he arrests the villain. The book points out those occasions when Columbo has a “Sympathetic Relationship” with the murderer, and lists those rare instances when “Columbo Gets Angry.” Read about Peter Falk’s delightful expansion of the character and his unfortunate attempt to adapt two Ed McBain novels into Columbo episodes. You can find an in-depth discussion about Columbo’s morality code, check out “The Supporting Cast,” “Colleagues and Sidekicks,” and “The Thirty-One Hats of Michael Lally” and spend time with “Bert, Barney and Dog.” The book opens with capsule synopses of all 67 episodes (and of course the pilots and live TV show and play which preceded them). The episodes are extensively cross-referenced to a series of essays that truly put the great detective, his clues and character “under glass.” With a foreword by Mark Dawidziak, author of The Columbo Phile.
Sheldon Catz has been a mystery fan in general and a Columbo fan in particular for as long as he can remember. He finally caught all of the original (1970s) episodes and began making notes on them in 1989. By coincidence, this was when the series returned from a 10-year hiatus and Mark Dawidziak’s book The Columbo Phile was first published. From 1992 to 2002, Catz served as chief writer and editor of The Columbo Newsletter, a quarterly fanzine where many of the ideas explored in this book were first introduced.
When not writing about Columbo, he can usually be found at his day job, writing about the law (which is not nearly as much fun). He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter. Unlike Columbo, the Catzes have no dog (and no cat, either).
Columbo Under Glass edition by Sheldon Catz Humor Entertainment eBooks
Will you enjoy this book? Well, here is what it's like: imagine a person with OCD given several scores of jigsaw puzzles who is encouraged to take them apart and reorganize the pieces in as many categories as he can think of. So he groups all of the pieces by color, then he groups them by shape, then size, then shape-size combinations, etc.That's what this book is like. The author treats the episodes like jigsaw puzzles, breaking them apart and then comparing and contrasting the pieces in all sorts of ways. For example, he finds all of the pieces that have Columbo's dog on them.Then he subdivides those into pieces that have Dog finding clues and pieces that have Dog providing comic relief. Then he subdivides them again by some other scheme. And the author does this not just with Dog, but with every other topic he can think of: types of clues, types of murders, types of murderers, types of relationships between the murderers and Columbo, mentions of Mrs Columbo, guest stars, Columbo's cigars, Columbo's personality quirks, and so on and on and on. Thus a typical chapter will start by defining the category (say, "First Clue, type 1") then go for many paragraphs briefly describing all of the clues of that type, and commenting on whether or not each episode did a good job with it, or mentioning ways in which a specific instance deviates from the type, or ways in which the author thinks it could have been done better.
I found it tiring, and before long started skipping through, searching for occasional bits of trivia that were interesting. There is a minimal amount of information regarding the making of the show: the history, the actors, the writers, etc. which, I guess, is what I really wanted. If that's what you are looking for, you will probably be disappointed.
The book could also have used another review by an editor. Even just skipping through I noticed the author repeating himself; moreover, there were some sentences that were just badly written, or gave the impression of a rough draft. And the extremely frequent use of parenthetical remarks along side of parenthetical citations was often confusing.
Still, the author obviously loves Columbo, and has spent a lot of time thinking about the show. If you like this sort of analysis, this may be the book for you.
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Columbo Under Glass edition by Sheldon Catz Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
A celebration of the great detective series, including thought-provoking analyses of every episode.
VERY DISAPPOINTED. WAS VERY HARSH IN RATING THE EPISODES. WELL,ONE STAR AIN'T TOO BAD.
A rather impressive book that's clearly been a very long time in development. It is so much more than an episode guide and can be rightfully considered as a next step to Mark Dawidziak's COLUMBO PHILE book.
The writer is commendably critical of each episode - even so of my favourites, and gives the reasons why some rate poorly. You may not agree but you may also re-watch the episodes to evaluate them again. And if you don't agree with him, it doesn't matter. We all have opinions and the author backs his up with great credibility. He also gos much deeper in the characterizations, plotting, construction of the episodes and so on, as well as an overview of COLUMBO in other media.
It's not a 'making of' book, it's a study of how a series is written and acted, as seen by a fan who has gone into detail like you won't have seen before. And if Mark Dawidziak thinks it's good (he wrote the Foreword), then that should be good enough for anyone.
COLUMBO UNDER GLASS is a terrific book.. it's not just an exhaustively thorough examination of TV show from a story & character point-of-view, but also a detailed look at the crafting of television mysteries in general. It's going to be a treasured addition to my TV library, a perfect companion/follow-up/expansion of Mark Dawidziak's classic THE COLUMBO PHILE. I loved it.
One of my favorite episodes of Columbo, and a very good read!!
Kind of boring and I stopped reading it, and I am a big Columbo fan. Overpriced for what is in it.
I love Columbo, and I enjoyed a lot of the detail and opinions in this book, but it was a constant frustration because of the way the book is formatted. I have several hundred books on my Voyage, and I have seen formatting issues like this in only several of them. Words, letters, numbers, and paragraphs are often out of whack, and after awhile it is oppressive to be reading a book that was prepared so carelessly. I don't know what caused this, and it may not have been something specific to the author, but it reminds me of when you use a word processing program and you try to reformat a page with new margins, but then instead of things lining up nicely they line up crazily, as if the pages were typed by someone who didn't care where things went. It is a tough slog to wade through this sort of situation, and I stayed with it only because I love Columbo so much. If only the book were formatted properly, it would have been a much better read.
Will you enjoy this book? Well, here is what it's like imagine a person with OCD given several scores of jigsaw puzzles who is encouraged to take them apart and reorganize the pieces in as many categories as he can think of. So he groups all of the pieces by color, then he groups them by shape, then size, then shape-size combinations, etc.
That's what this book is like. The author treats the episodes like jigsaw puzzles, breaking them apart and then comparing and contrasting the pieces in all sorts of ways. For example, he finds all of the pieces that have Columbo's dog on them.Then he subdivides those into pieces that have Dog finding clues and pieces that have Dog providing comic relief. Then he subdivides them again by some other scheme. And the author does this not just with Dog, but with every other topic he can think of types of clues, types of murders, types of murderers, types of relationships between the murderers and Columbo, mentions of Mrs Columbo, guest stars, Columbo's cigars, Columbo's personality quirks, and so on and on and on. Thus a typical chapter will start by defining the category (say, "First Clue, type 1") then go for many paragraphs briefly describing all of the clues of that type, and commenting on whether or not each episode did a good job with it, or mentioning ways in which a specific instance deviates from the type, or ways in which the author thinks it could have been done better.
I found it tiring, and before long started skipping through, searching for occasional bits of trivia that were interesting. There is a minimal amount of information regarding the making of the show the history, the actors, the writers, etc. which, I guess, is what I really wanted. If that's what you are looking for, you will probably be disappointed.
The book could also have used another review by an editor. Even just skipping through I noticed the author repeating himself; moreover, there were some sentences that were just badly written, or gave the impression of a rough draft. And the extremely frequent use of parenthetical remarks along side of parenthetical citations was often confusing.
Still, the author obviously loves Columbo, and has spent a lot of time thinking about the show. If you like this sort of analysis, this may be the book for you.
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