Mike (Mélodie mortelle)

In Mélodie mortelle, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery, Mike is the lead guitarist of the band supporting the popular yéyé singer Nicky and also her fiance. He is the parallel of Joseph Trevelyan in that he is found dead just after a seance at a different and distant location announces that he is dead.

Mike goes by the real name "Michel Passart", 23 at the time of the events in the show. According to Glissant Mike had a triple fracture of the tibial plateau some three years earlier, an injury which had been badly treated. According to Franck Soler, this injury had been sustained in Algeria (but the background is not given). Mike probably started taking morphine thereafter as a painkiller. Earlier Mike had been found lying on the floor with a tourniquet around his arm and a syringe in his hand, suggesting a possible accidental overdose. But Glissant finds that the amount of morphine was four vials, far too much even for a suicide or a regular addict. Moreover, the fatal dose had been injected into the back shoulder. Mike could not have done this by himself.