Co-lumbo

When Kojak walked out of the surgery sporting a magnificent mullet, word soon got around to the other great detectives. Most of the cases were straightforward: Cannon was underweight (the camera is fattening), Batman had a rubber allergy, and Porfiry Petrovich had the runs after a bad bowl of borscht.⇑

But Columbo? It seemed an uncomplicated tension headache, so I gave him some general advice on lifestyle changes and a prescription for co-codamol. “That’s …