Le Cadavre dans le placard

The strangled body of a Broadway actress is found in a Central Park apartment owned by Alvirah Meehan, a former cleaning woman who purchased the apartment after winning a $40 million lottery. Alvirah gets involved in the investigation of the death of the actress Fiona Winters murdered in her own closet.

First published in English as The Body In The Closet in 1990. French language translation by Anne Damour published in the anthology Crimes passionels by Editions Albin Michel in 1997 and in this single story Elle promotional edition in 1997.