Ernest Mauduis

In Mademoiselle Mac Ginty est morte, the France Televisions adaptation of Mrs McGinty's Dead, Ernest Mauduis is the husband of Eva Mauduis. Eva and her lover conspired to murder Ernest many years before the events in the episode. There is a flashback scene in the episode showing Ernest being strangled by Eva Mauduis but the actor who portrayed Ernest is not credited.

The structure of this parallel historical event is slightly different from the original and hence Ernest doesn't really have a true parallel in the original novel. In the original, Eva was a governess who conspired with Alfred Craig to murder his wife. Here, Eva Mauduis conspired with an unnamed lover to murder Ernest.