Boileau-Narcejac

An elderly aristocrat vanishes without a trace and his heirs are told they must wait for five years before they can inherit his money; to pay for the upkeep of the vast estate, they organize a Son et Lumière show as they also search for the missing corpse, as tragic accidents begin to occur all too frequently.

Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.

The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.

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Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub, but in the morning, before the "accidental" death can be discovered, the corpse is gone-so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity...This...