C - CAR
C - CIGAR
D - DOG
N - NOTEBOOK
P - PENCIL
R - RAINCOAT
S - SUIT
C - CHILI
S - SHOES
E - EGGS (Tough one, several episodes he either cooks eggs or walks around with hard-boiled eggs)
s is the only outstanding one.
Remember a tangible thing often (almost always) associated with him. Clue - interestingly and brilliantly - they appear at the building climatic moment so often when Columbo first starts to rattle the murderer - so often appears when the murderer begins to realise that Columbo is not so muddle headed...
Best of luck
Answer for last clue announced Christmas day - unless someone gets it
Best of luck
Happy Christmas all Columbo fans.
Well done for getting so close.
As promised the Christmas Day Big Annoucement of the answer:
Only letter outstanding:
s = scraps (of paper)
(He so often pulls out a scrap of paper from his pocket at the crucial moment of tension and says 'oh, that's nothing...I've got it here somewhere...)