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timoth3y 3 days ago

The TV series Columbo was a brilliant inversion of the British deceive story. Naturally, every story started with an upper-class murder, but from the start the audience was shown who the killer was and how the crime was committed.

The "mystery" was how the detective was going to figure it out.

B1FF_PSUVM a day ago | parent [-]

It's called an "inverted mystery", originated by R. Austin Freeman in 1909.

There's a good piece on that form here: https://mysteriesahoy.com/2019/01/26/five-to-try-inverted-my...