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27 Episodes 2013 - 2019
Episode 1
90 mins
Superintendent Laurence investigates gruesome murders in a rehabilitation center; adapted from "They Do It With Mirrors".

Episode 2
94 mins
Sparkling Cyanide: Death by Champagne - Alice meets one of her favorite authors on a movie set and asks if she can do a feature. When the lead actress is found dead, Alice is approached to take her place. Although suicide is determined , Chief Inspector Laurence suspects foul play.

Episode 3
94 mins
A rich woman and her maid are found murdered in an old castle. The only witnesses are a dog and ghosts which seem prone to reveal the truth. Fascinated by divination, the superintendent's mother fully intends to participate in her son's investigation; adapted from "Dumb Witness".

Episode 4
94 mins
Avril comes to a dying man's rescue on a cliff. While she hears his last words, she notices a woman's portrait next to him. She seeks help at the village, but when she returns, the photo is missing; adapted from "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?".

Episode 5
90 mins
A little girl is murdered during her school's kermesse. The superintendent Laurence, temporarily blinded from an assault, must work with the insufferable Alice Avril. She will be his eyes in this tiny community where everyone seems to have something to hide.

Episode 6
94 mins
Superintendent Laurence and Alice Avril are invited to a special dinner, involving unsolved crimes. During the evening their host is killed and everyone becomes a suspect, even Superintendent Laurence; adapted from "Cards on the Table".

Episode 7
91 mins
Avril goes undercover in a cabaret where a waitress was killed, and the boss kidnapped. Laurence has to deal with an inspector from the "police of the police" who wants him removed from the investigation; inspired by "Murder on the Links".

Episode 8
91 mins
Marlène asks for Laurence's help on a case involving her sister Solange, who runs a boarding house where a young woman dropped dead of poisoning; adapted from "Hickory Dickory Dock".

Episode 9
91 mins
Alice receives a marriage proposal from Emile Deboucke, an older rich spinning mills owner. Her engagement is not a bed of roses, and soon she has to deal with a series of murders; adapted from "Murder is Easy".

Episode 10
90 mins
Alice's ex-husband is accused of murder. She discovers him hiding in her apartment, and doesn't turn him to the police; adapted from "Mrs McGinty's Dead".

Episode 11
92 mins
Marlène is puzzled by an ad in the paper for a "murdered party". Laurence believes it's a joke, but at set time, a man interrupts the party violently and drops dead; adapted from "A Murder is Announced".

Episode 12
90 mins
Police captain Swan Laurence has died on duty. Eight days earlier, he was called to protect the son of famous novelist Eloïse Zennefort; adapted from "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly".

Episode 13
89 mins
Looking for a love potion to seduce Laurence, Marlène witnesses a psychic reader casting a spell to kill an enemy. Laurence, sceptic, does not believe in occult powers but when Alice's friend, a young heiress, suddenly dies, he needs to investigate the case with open mind.

Episode 14
93 mins
After a young secretary hangs herself, Laurence suspects sinister forces led to her death; adapted from "The Murder at the Vicarage".

Episode 15
93 mins
The wealthy owner of a luxury hotel, 60-year-old Émilie Beauregard is poisoned and dies. Everyone suspects her young, attractive husband Adrien. But appearances can be deceptive and Captain Laurence finds this solution a little too obvious and too convenient.

Episode 16
93 mins
Avril finds herself in A&E at Saint-Paul's hospital after a scooter accident. There, she meets the famous crime reporter Albert Major. Shortly afterwards, he's found dead. Believing that he was killed as he possessed compromising information about the hospital, Avril decides to investigate.

Episode 17
92 mins
Inspector Laurence goes undercover as a female secretary for the French Secret Service; adapted from "The Man in the Brown Suit".

Episode 18
94 mins
Investigating a murder becomes complicated for Inspector Laurence as he mourns his own loss; adapted from "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side".

Episode 19
92 mins
After a young fashionista accuses herself of murder, Inspector Laurence has to find the real killer; adapted from "Third Girl".

Episode 20
90 mins
A Father Christmas is murdered one night at a Christmas market. Six year old Louison witnesses the murder while running away from the orphanage where she lives with her brother, and her life is now in danger. Despite his aversion to children, Commissaire Laurence becomes their bodyguard, and his secretary Marlène delights at playing mother. The solution to the mystery appears to center around Louison's strange orphanage, an institution well known to journalist Alice Avril, who spent her childhood there.

Episode 21
94 mins
Murder befalls Alice's acting class, which features a guest teacher who looks exactly like Inspector Laurence; adapted from "Three Act Tragedy".

Episode 22
90 mins
Avril is attacked and struggles with amnesia while working on an article; adapted from "Hercule Poirot's Christmas".

Episode 23
90 mins
Following the murder of a musician, Swan Laurence's investigation takes him into the world of music production and 1960s pop. A producer discovers Avril's voice and wants to make her a star. But a murderer is on the loose. Jealousies soon turn to hatred. And hatred quickly becomes fatal.

Episode 24
92 mins
A patient is brutally murdered in Dr. Rodier's psychiatric clinic. As Marlène is suffering from depression, Swan Laurence persuades his faithful secretary to become a patient at the establishment. Shortly afterwards, Rodier's wife is murdered. Laurence, who was her lover, is immediately the prime suspect; adapted from "Evil Under the Sun."

Episode 25
94 mins
Alice is appointed assistant to the chef Maxime Beaumont, who presents a cookery program on TV Nord. When the channel's boss is murdered, Beaumont becomes the prime suspect. Swan Laurence is not convinced. But Marlène does everything to prove his guilt, because of a personal disagreement between her and Maxime.

Episode 26
92 mins
Everybody hates Clémence. Her maid is murdered, but Clémence is the intended target. Clémence is commissioner Ernest's sister and she tries to woo Swan Laurence. Alice Avril joins as Clémence's maid to investigate.

Episode 27
Tue, Oct 20, 202094 mins
After a night of heavy drinking, Alice Avril wakes up next to a young man who has been murdered in his bed. Everything points to her as the murderer, but who is trying to frame her? First, she needs to get rid of the body, which is no mean feat. All of Alice's friends then break the law trying to get her out of trouble: Marlène of course, Laurence, Coroner Glissant, Divisional Commissioner Tricard, and even Officer Arlette Carmouille.
