Columbo

This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo''s investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Columbo (1968-2003).  With a barrage of questions about minute details and feigned ignorance, the iconic detective enacts a persona of ‘antipotency’ (counter authoritativeness) to affect the villains'' underestimation of his attention to inconsistencies, ab...