Hélène Jouve

In L'affaire Protheroe, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Hélène Jouve is the secretary of Alexandre Protheroe. She is also the fiancee of Damien Martinez who is Protheroe's chauffeur.

At the beginning of the episode, Hélène meets Damien and breaks off her two-year old engagement with him without any explanation. He is mystified and argues with her and even manhandles her. When a passer-by tries to intervene on behalf of Hélène, Damien, typically an unstable person, strikes him down.

When Hélène is found dead the next morning, and Laurence concludes that it is murder and not suicide, Damien becomes the prime suspect. Only towards the end of the episode is it established that Alexandre Protheroe had a habit of demanding sexual favours from his secretaries. After session too many, Hélène had told Alexandre that there would be no more, and that she would go to the police. Alexandre had then strangled her and hung her up to make it seem like she committed suicide. Lise Protheroe, Alexandre's daughter witnessed the murder.