On the face of it, and just going by the title, the story screams lack of credibility. Who would persist on hiring and paying forty detectives over an extended period of time, to find someone who didn't want to be found? Which is a moot point anyway, since the guy that Munro Dean (George Mitchell) is trying to track down is a store owner with a shop in the same city! And when the payoff reveals itself at the end of the story, that doesn't make any sense either. Because if Otto (Jack Weston) kept secret the reason he killed Dean's wife for twelve years, going by her murder occurring in 1948, what reason would he have to spill the information now? I guess you just have to take it on faith that Dean was a paranoid guy, and that private detective William Tyre (James Franciscus) had nothing better to do than get involved in this case. Which is a polite way of saying that maybe you should just skip this episode, which you won't of course, because if you're like me and watching the series in order, you'll take whatever Hitch dishes out.
Review of Forty Detectives Later
