Jeffrey Neal was the CEO of Neal Publishing in Publish Or Perish.
He hired Alan Mallory to write for him after Mr Mallory's contract with Riley Greenleaf and Greenleaf Publishing ran out, in the process gaining ownership of his new book, Sixty Miles To Saigon. Mr Neal attended a party alongside Mr Mallory and his agent, Eileen McRae. During this party, a drunk Riley Greenleaf verbally harassed him and threatened Mallory's life. During the investigation of Alan Mallory's murder, Jeffrey Neal was questioned by Lieutenant Columbo at a restaurant alongside Eileen McRae on the nature of the publishing deals made between Mallory and Greenleaf.
Jeffrey Neal was played by Jaques Aubuchon.