A few weeks ago, William Link, co-creator of Columbo among many other things, received the Grand Master Award at the 72nd Annual Edgar Awards Banquet. This is in other words a career achievement award in mystery writing. William Link was present in person last April 26th 2018 to receive this important award and he even gave a wonderful and touching acceptance speech. He was sadly not in the best of health but he was certainly very grateful to get such an accolade from his peers. You can view this speech by looking up the link below: