Ah, yes – Maréchal Pot-au-Feu. He happens not to get killed in the course of the good guys’ rounding up the deserters; as it’s Christmastime, they let him stay alive and unharmed, at least temporarily – on the condition that he excel himself in producing truly terrific meals for the festivities.
Something which kind of semi-fits the bill here, is the “black comedy” ballad by W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan),The Yarn of the ‘Nancy Bell’. It concerns a castaway group of shipwrecked mariners, including the ship’s cook: to survive, they kill and eat one member of the group at a time. (Gilbert seems to have had a real “thing” about cannibalism – it pops up rather frequently in his comic verse.) The cook’s strategy is that he will obviously have to be the final one left, because he’s the only one who knows how to cook the victims – however, his plan goes wrong at the last moment.
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Heh though one would think that putting a murderer who is also a cook in charge of your food after giving him a serious reason to hate and fear you may not be the best of ideas … ! 
Though if I remember rightly, Pot-au-Feu is nasty, but not brave – unlikely to pull a “Samson in the temple” number. And I expect a couple of people who know about cooking, get assigned to keep a close watch on him…
Spoilers unnecessary. With Columbo, we know who did it in the first two minutes. The spoiler is, how did Columbo know?
That said, we don’t know who did it until the end of the Martin Landau episode.
Well, sort of. I mean, we know Landau did it, because we see him do it – but was it Landau as the cold banker, or was it Landau as his twin brother the celebrity chef?
James Bond isn’t just a professional killer who knows his caviar and has very specific drink preferences; he’s a guy who makes a damn fine quiche for his girl du jour.