Elisabeth Krepps

In Meurtres en solde, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas for Season 2 of the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Elisabeth Krepps is the wife of wealthy department store owner Simon Krepps and the parallel of Adelaide Lee from the original novel. Elisabeth Krepps is portrayed by Aurore Clément.

Unlike Adelaide Lee, Elisabeth Krepps is close to still alive at the time of the events in the episode and has a fairly large role in the development of the plot. Unique to this adaptation, Elisabeth is the one in the family who had all the money. She was the heiress of the Au Bon Temps department store. Simon Krepps did not make his wealth by himself but married her for her money. The original novel does not detail how Simeon treated Adelaide but here Elisabeth says that she is kept on a tight leash. She has to beg just to get a cheque book. She also had to endure watching her children tore apart by Simon. He pitted sons Albert and David against each other. He also drove daughter Annabelle Rochetti from the house because she had married an Italian communist. Like Adelaide, Elisabeth is close to Albert, who is the Alfred Lee parallel. In this adaptation the sons are not married.

After Simon Krepps is found murdered, Elisabeth is not considered a plausible suspect as she was at home and in any case would not have the strength to engage in what seemed like a violent struggle which took place at the murder scene. However it later transpired that she had be an accomplice with Gaspard Carpentier, the personnel manager of the department store. He had been conducting an affair with Elisabeth. Gaspard planned to kill Krepps to free Elisabeth and the rest of the family from Krepps's tyranny. He visited Krepps in his office and stabbed him multiple times. He then turned up the heating to mask the time of death. Hours later, Elisabeth pulled on a rope attached to furniture in the room. This created a crashing sound heard by witnesses in the department store and was done to fake the time of the murder to create an alibi for Gaspard. At the same time, Gaspard, on finding the body, immediately faked a phone call to Elisabeth at her home to tell her about Krepps's death, in order to give her an alibi.