Les Meurtres ABC (Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie)

Les Meurtres ABC is the 1st episode of season 1 of the French TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.

Comparison with the original story

 * Like other episode in the rest of the first season, the investigators are Larosière and his assistant Lampion, which are in some way parallels of Hercule Poirot and Hastings.
 * André Custe is a salesman and parallels Alexander Bonaparte Cust. He stays at Mme Daste's, who has a daughter, Lili, who functions as the parallel of Lily Marbury.
 * The murder of the Aline Bellec, the Betty Barnard parallel, is the first one instead of the second in this adaptation. Yolande Bellec is Aline's sister, a teacher, and parallels Megan Barnard. She works with Yann Lebras who is the parallel of Donald Fraser. This murder is depicted very faithfully: the victim is strangled in a seaside town, the body is discovered by a civilian walking his dog. However there ar two differences - Yolande, the Barnard parallel, is arrested because the letter from A.B.C. was not presented. In this occasion, Lampion thought that the letter was a joke and threw it away.
 * As a result, the second murder is of another person named Baptiste who has no parallel in the original story.

Cast

 * Antoine Duléry as Larosière
 * Marius Colucci as Lampion
 * Denis Lavant as André Custe
 * Bérangère Bonvoisin as Bénédicte Calvez
 * Jean-François Garreaud as Docteur Granet
 * Nicolas Bridet as Duval
 * Chloé Stefani as Lili Daste
 * Estelle Larivaz as Yolande Bellec
 * Pascal Demolon as François Calvez
 * Daniel Berlioux as Jean Calvez
 * Jeanne Bournaud as Sophie
 * Célia Bernard as Aline Bellec
 * Alban Casterman as Yann Lebras
 * Dominique Daguier as Préfet de police
 * Anne Benoit as Mme Daste
 * Caroline Rabaliatti as Geneviève Quentin
 * François Tourmarkine as Chonchon
 * Laurence Flahault as Mme Legendre
 * Silvie Laguna as Mme Gendron
 * Jean-Marcel Crusiaux as Baptiste