"Dial M For Murder" has a Columbo type payoff-clue in that the matter of the latch-key returned to the stair carpet and Ray Milland realizing he'd taken the wrong key off of the hired assassin's body was what finally incriminated himself, as Inspector Hubbard (a future Columbo victim in John Williams) reasoned would happen.
Williams played a variation of that character so many times that it makes me really regret that he and Falk's Columbo, (who is the American counterpart to that kind of detective) had no scenes together in "Dagger Of The Mind."
Just to kind of build on the foreshadowing of Columbo in "Dial M For Murder" one could say that Ray Milland incriminates himself the same way Dick Van **** ultimately does. "How could you have known the key was under the stair carpet unless you were in on the whole thing?" just like "How could you have known it was that camera unless you used it yourself?"