This one came out of watching Visconti's The Damned, where Konstantin discovers Martin's little hideaway. He's up there with the police, he might as well be one himself, wearing an overcoat, puffing a cigar. In fact, one policeman in particular...
Vincent Price really was in a Columbo episode, but only as a side character. The "crooked mortician" was the plot of another Columbo. The rest of it seemed appropriate somehow.
