Look for a Woman 1982

An ordinary day at a Parisian notary office ends in tragedy. Alice Postic, the telephonist, stays late to chat with a friend on the phone and ends up finding her boss in death’s throes, with a dagger in his back. After calling the police, Alice faints, but when the officer arrives, the corpse has disappeared! Arriving on call, the police inspector Grandin turns out to be Alice’s long-time acquaintance, but he now disavows the old love they once shared. In connection with the murder, the notary Rocher and his wife are the main suspects. But everything ends in the most ridiculous way: in the midst of interrogations, the “late” Rocher arrives in the office, who spent an evening at the opera!

Alice Postic becomes a subject of ridicule from colleagues and acquaintances. But suddenly she finds some foreign objects in the office, and later the police find the corpse of an unknown young man in a park near the notary’s bureau. Linking the found objects with the death of the stranger, Alice begins her own investigation, in which she then helps, then interferes with her friend, Inspector Grandin. It turns out that the murdered young man is Jullien Nalestro, lover of notary Rocher’s wife. All the evidence indicates that the notary killed his rival out of jealousy. However, clever Alice suggests Grandin to set up a trap to catch the real killer…