Huguette

In Le Crime est notre affaire the 2008 French adaptation by Pascal Thomas of 4.50 from Paddington, Huguette is a dancer in the dance troupe headed by Margaret Brown. The members of the troupe had told Bélisaire Beresford that one of their colleagues, Anna Stravinska, had left in late November, ostensibly to look for her husband. Bélisaire at first considered the hypothesis that the body found by Prudence Beresford could be that of Anna, but later Huguette calls him to say that she had received a postcard from Anna from Saint Barthelemy, so she is alive and well.

Huguette is portrated by Audrey Hamm. There is no named parallel in the original novel. There, an unnamed dancer in the troupe receives a postcard from Anna from Jamaica. She notifies Armand Dessin of the Paris police who relays it to Inpector Craddock.