The Hatter's Ghost

In the small La Rochelle town, Leon Labbe is a reputable hatter that lives with his crippled wife Mathilde and his maid Louise Chapus on the upper floors of his store. The boy Valentin works for him at the store. His neighbor across the street is the Armenian tailor Kachoudas, who lives with his wife and five children in the upper floors of his store. La Rochelle is shaken by a strangler that has already killed six women in the last weeks. Leon like to play card with his friends in a bar and is always followed by Kachoudas that suspects he might be the killer. Among his friends are the Chief of Police Caille, Dr. Chaudreau and the young journalist Jeantet, who has theories about the strangler. Soon we learn that Leon killed his wife two months ago and begin the crime spree killing her six best friends that usually visit her on her birthday. There is only the seventh woman missing, but he finds that she died of natural causes. Now the sick Leon looks for a replacement and Louise may be his next victim.