Madame Morel

In Cartes sur table, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Madame Morel was one of the former employers of Elise Schlumberger. Significantly, when commissaire Laurence asked Elise was asked to list her former employers, she named several but omitted Madame Morel. However, Alice Avril, who had invited Elise to stay with her for a few days, managed to elicit this name out of her during casual conversation. Alice later discovered in the newspaper archives that Madame Morel had died after confusing a bottle of hat paint for a bottle of cough syrup. Although not proven definitively one way or the other, both Laurence and Alice ended up quite certain that Madame Morel had been poisoned by Elise. Towards the end of the episode, Elise also tried to poison Alice. Laurence surmised that this was probably because Alice knew about Madame Morel.

Madame Morel is the parallel of Mrs Benson from the original novel. She is not seen on screen during the course of the episode.