Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie (English Title: "The Little Murders of Agatha Christie") is a French television series, produced by Escazal Films, that first broadcast on France 2 on 9 January 2009.
In the United States, the second series is titled “Agatha Christie's Criminal Games” and is shown on MHz Choice streaming and broadcast network.
Episodes[]
- Main article: List of Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie episodes
The series opened with a 4-episode mini-series set in 1930’s France "Petits Meurtres en Famille" (an adaptation of Hercule Poirot's Christmas) broadcast in 2006. These featured the two detectives who were to become the lead characters in season 1.
Season One takes place in 1930’s northern France with Superintendent Larosiere, who has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young Inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. There were 11 episodes broadcast between 2009 and 2012, all adaptations of various Christie stories.
Season Two is set in mid 1950’s through 1960’s mainly in Lille with Commissaire Swan Laurence, his secretary Marlène Leroy and newspaper reporter Alice Avril who insists on helping despite Laurence's preference to work alone. There were 27 episodes broadcast between 2015 and 2020 of which 25 were adaptations of Christie's stories.
Season 3 is set in the 1970s and features a new set of detectives.
Cast[]
Casting | Character | Numbers of episodes | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Antoine Duléry | Jean Larosière | 11 | 2009-2012 |
Marius Colucci | Émile Lampion | 11 | 2009-2012 |
Blandine Bellavoir | Alice Avril | 25 | 2013–2020 |
Samuel Labarthe | Swan Laurence | 24 | 2013–2020 |
Élodie Frenck | Marlène Leroy | 24 | 2013–2020 |
Dominique Thomas | Ernest Tricard | 24 | 2013–2020 |
Christophe Piret / François Godart | Robert Jourdeuil | 8 | 2013/2013–2019 |
Serge Dubois | Ménard | 8 | 2009-2012 |
Olivier Carré | Dr Verdure | 5 | 2010-2012 |
Flore Bonaventura / Alice Isaaz | Juliette Larosière | 2 | 2010/2012 |
Anne Benoît | Madame Daste / Annick Devassene | 2 | 2009/2015 |
Hélène Vincent | Kristin | 1 | 2009 |
Pascal Elso | Léopold Vallabrègues | 1 | 2009 |
Corinne Masiero | Angélique | 1 | 2009 |
Denis Lavant | André Custe | 1 | 2009 |
Frédéric Pierrot | Jean Villiers | 1 | 2009 |
Robinson Stévenin | Jean | 1 | 2009 |
Françoise Bertin | Emilie Dubreuil | 1 | 2009 |
Lannick Gautry | Mathieu Vidal | 1 | 2010 |
Isabelle Candelier | Christine Boisseau | 1 | 2010 |
Guilaine Londez | Mademoiselle Thuleau | 1 | 2010 |
Mata Gabin | Esméralda | 1 | 2011 |
Jean-Marie Winling | Pierre Fougères | 1 | 2012 |
Patrick Descamps | Chesnais | 1 | 2012 |
Françoise Fabian | Alexina Laurence | 1 | 2013 |
Claude Perron | Claude Kerrigan | 1 | 2013 |
Charlie Dupont | Roland Delavallée | 1 | 2013 |
Isabelle de Hertogh | Bella Siatidis | 1 | 2013 |
Dominique Pinon | Hubert Petitpont | 1 | 2014 |
Natacha Lindinger | Euphrasie Maillol | 4 | 2014 |
Nicolas Vaude | Stanislas | 1 | 2014 |
Alban Lenoir | Paul Coupet | 1 | 2014 |
Philippe Nahon | Emile Deboucke | 1 | 2015 |
Serge Riaboukine | Léopold Santini | 1 | 2015 |
Cyril Gueï | Dr Timothée Glissant | 14 | 2016 |
Sophie Cattani | Eve Constantin | 1 | 2016 |
Philippe Rebbot | Dr. Locart | 1 | 2018 |
Main characters[]
Season one (1930s)[]
- Jean Larosière - main character, investigator. Assisted by Èmile Lampion.
- Èmile Lampion - Assistant of Larosière, somewhat reminiscent of Hastings
- Dr Verdure -
- Ménard -
- Juliette Larosière - Larosière's daughter
Season 2 (1950s-1960s)[]
- Swan Laurence - Chief Inspector of the Commissariat de Lille
- Alice Avril - reporter of La Voix du Nord
- Marlène Leroy - Laurence's not efficient secretary
- Ernest Tricard - Laurence's superior, a Chief Superintendent
- Robert Jourdeuil - chief editor of La Voix du Nord
- Tim Glissant - third police surgeon of the Commissariat de Lille
- Euphrasie Maillol - first known pathologist of the Commissariat
- Arlette Carmouille - police constable, former secretary
- Flic Martin - police constable
- Flic Pagès - police constable
Season 3 (1970s) (scheduled, characters not official)[]
- Annie Gréco
- Max Beretta
- Rose Bellecour - psychologist