Robert Culp plays the hot-tempered president of a detective agency named Brimmer, who has just completed an investigation into the supposed infidelity of the wife to a powerful newspaper magnate named Arthur Kennicutt(played by Ray Milland). Brimmer falsely gives the wife a clean bill of health in order to mine her for inside information to her politically connected husband, but her defiant refusal causes Brimmer to strike her, killing her accidentally, but making it look like a murder that gets the attention of Lt. Columbo(Peter Falk) whose investigative talents may get him hired to the agency, as long as he drops the case... Fine cast distinguishes this entry.
Review of Death Lends a Hand
