Dear Inspector

The story

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

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Inspector Tanquerelle

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This film

Dear Inspector

1978

Jupiter's Thigh

1980

Cast

A Annie GirardotLise Tanquerelle P Philippe NoiretAntoine Lemercier C Catherine AlricChristine Vallier H Hubert DeschampsCharmille P Paulette DubostMother R Roger DumasMarcel Guérin, l'inspecteur R Raymond GérômeHead of Criminal Division G Guy MarchandBeretti S Simone RenantSuzanne G Georges WilsonAlexandre Mignonac M Monique TarbèsBathroom attendant H Henri CzarniakL'inspecteur Cascard

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M Maurice IllouzL'inspecteur Picot G Georges RiquierProfesseur Pelletier D David GabisonLe doyen Levergue G Gabriel JabbourMedical examiner A Armelle PourricheLittle Catherine M Michel RocherLe laborantin J Jacques BoudetL'homme élégant A Anna GaylorAntoine's concierge J Jacques FrantzL'inspecteur Verdier F Francis LemaireAntonio, Le coiffeur J Jacqueline DoyenMadame Melun R Roger MuniTailor S Sarah SterlingBerthe M Michel AudiardLe mainate (voice) G Gilbert RichardLe speaker B Bernard SpiegelUn journaliste C Colette DuvalLa pharmacienne J Jean-Pierre RambalWaiter G Guy AnthonyMonsieur de Grandville G Guy Di RigoMaurice Rombard