Marguerite Richard

In Pension Vanilos, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Marguerite Richard is the parallel character of Patricia Lane in the original novel. Like Patricia Lane, Marguerite was probably studying archaeology as she is described as a girl who is studying fossils. Like Patricia who liked Nigel Chapman, Marguerite also liked Jean-Baptiste Millet, the Nigel parallel, except that in this case, the affection is apparently reciprocated. In this adaptation, Jean-Baptiste killed her because she had discovered that he had lied to her all along. She had earlier accepted his explanation for having two passports. However, later she found that one of his books had a secret compartment and surmised that he was using it for smuggling. Like in the original novel, Jean-Baptiste killed her with a paper weight and set up an alibi for himself using a phone call to commissaire Laurence's office made ostensibly by Marguerite but actually by his accomplice Rose.

The character of Marguerite Richard is played by Blanche Cluzet.