" Freddy the Detective," written by Walter R. Brooks, who was also, very briefly, a writer at this magazine, concerned a missing toy train. " 'The first thing to do,' said Freddy, 'is to Visit the Scene of the Crime.' " Brooks published twenty-six books about Freddy, who not only knew how to read but also kept a very impressive little library in a corner of his pigpen that he called his study.
The heart of Disco Elysium is a murder mystery. You start as a disheveled detective with a savage hangover. Your clothes and memory are missing. Not far beyond your destroyed hotel room, someone is dead. Your investigation will slowly piece things together. But in the real world, a battle over the game's legacy has led fans on an even more mysterious quest.
As he breaks three eggs into a glass bowl, Lt Columbo tells Joanna Ferris: I'm the worst cook in the world, but there's one thing I do terrific, and that's an omelette. The episode is Murder By the Book, and Columbo has taken Joanna, the wife of murder victim Jim Ferris, home to save her from more relentless questioning by his colleagues.