Lucette Vidal

In Albert Major parlait trop, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Caribbean Mystery, Lucette Vidal is the parallel of the character Lucky Dyson in the original novel. She is the current wife of Dr Grégoire Vidal, the head of the Hôpital Saint Paul which is the setting for most of the events in the show. Lucette is a former nurse at the hospital but stopped work after marrying Grégoire. Lucette Vidal is portrayed by Beatrice Rosen.

Towards the end of the show, Lucette was found dead in a hospital ward in her nightgown and with a paper bag over her head and a rope round her neck. It looked like suicide but commissaire Laurence quickly concludes it is murder when he finds a thumbmark over her jugular. Lucette had come to the hospital fully dressed and her clothes were later found hidden in a drawer in the office of Edouard Bouchard, the Edward Hillingdon parallel, and another doctor at the hospital. This resulted in Bouchard being arrested for her murder.

Bouchard confesses that, years earlier, Lucette had murdered Gaëlle Vidal, Grégoire Vidal's first wife. At that time Gaëlle had complained about not being able to sleep. Lucette was a her nurse. She mixed some drugs and gave it as a drink to Gaëlle and this killed her. Lucette subsequently married Dr Grégoire Vidal. Bouchard did not explain Lucette's motive but presumably it was because she wanted Dr Vidal for herself.

Later, according to Bouchard, Lucette found out that Grégoire was impotent. Bouchard had written out the prescription for the drugs used on Gaëlle. Lucette kept the prescription and used it to blackmail Bouchard into having an affair with her, but he insists that he did not kill her.

The reason for her murder is only revealed at the end when Laurence concludes that it was a case of mistaken identity. Paul Courelle had intended to kill his wife Dany (the Molly Kendal parallel) but he had mistaken Lucette for Dany in the dark because both had blonde hair.