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Why the world still loves 1970s detective show Columbo Alamy Fifty years on, the cop show featuring a bumbling but brilliant homicide detective has attracted a new generation of fans. "It flipped everything on its head," agrees David Koenig, author of a new book, Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective. Instead, with distinctive posture, exaggerated hand …