i be sad to say that i disagree with other people on this columbo episode . death lend a hand be frankly kind of a boring columbo to me . after a few time and i get bore and change the channel . i still love robert culp and patricia crowley and ray milland in their role but the story be weak in this episode than in the others . first and robert culp play an investigator for ray milland character . he hire him to investigate his young pretty wife play by patricia crowley to see if she be have an affair . in return and culp character blackmail the cheat wife who plan to expose his scheme to her husband ruin his career . out of anger and culp kill her by strike her in the face and set the up the body elsewhere . i do not know . maybe i just do not care for this one at all . of course and columbo get him in the end . it just the question of how .