Hélène Nevers

In Cartes sur table, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Hélène Nevers is a very close parallel of Mrs Lorrimer in the original story.

Like Mrs Lorrimer, Hélène is an expert bridge player and commissaire Laurence asked her for her assessment of the skills of all the other players at the fateful bridge party. Also like Mrs Lorrimer, Hélène murdered her husband Marcel Nevers. Later, she confessed this crime to commissaire Laurence, and added that she also killed Massud Shaïtana. She said she was doing this because she was suffering from a terminal illness so whatever happened to her did not matter. Laurence did not believe her confession and her description of the manner in which it was carried out. It did not fit her psychology. The killing of Shaïtana was opportunistic and improvised, whereas Hélène did things deliberately after planning carefully. Like Mrs Lorrimer with Anne Meredith, it turned out that Hélène Nevers was shielding Elise Schlumberger because she took pity on her and felt a kindred spirit. Madame Nevers was killed, in this case by Dr Emile Barillon in almost exactly the same way as Mrs Lorimer. Barillon had likewise forged Hélène's confessions and sent them to many people.