This holiday in Chamonix Daniel Corban will never forget!

He thought it would be a good extension trip of his honeymoon, but after a typical newlyweds' spat, Elizabeth went out for a walk. The trouble is that she has been taking a walk for ten days... and that no one has seen her neither in the village, nor in their Paris hometown.

Daniel is inevitably worried. He has quickly called on the authorities, and the village's Superintendent has started the investigation... without much hope... and it is not making any headway indeed.

Fortunately, the local priest has great news - they found Elizabeth! She's here... right on the other side of the door... here she is...

Daniel cannot believe it - this woman is not his wife!
And yet, she knows everything about him, his past, with supporting evidence.

Has Daniel gone mad? Or is this woman an impostor?

"Piège pour un homme seul" is a real gem full of surprises that will appeal to Clue's players and 1950s films noirs' fans alike. To illustrate this detective comedy, the CDF's production feeds on the genre's atmosphere, plays around the era's clichés and delights in this jazzy java of shams brought together by Robert Thomas.

Robert Thomas is a French writer, actor, director and film-maker born on September 28, 1927 in Gap.

At 14, he becomes enthralled with modern theatre and over three years, he reads every theatre play published since 1900. In 1947, right before taking his French baccalauréat exams (equivalent to English A levels), he leaves his family with the set idea of pursuing a career in comedy writing and acting in Paris. His acting classes are financed with the money he earns as a telegraph operator and he will also appear as an extra in over 50 films. He spends his nights writing plays, but the first seven ones are all rejected.

Robert Thomas' tenacity pays off with his eighth play - Piège pour un homme seul. Performed in front of a live audience for the first time on January 28, 1960, at the Bouffes-Parisiens theatre in Paris, the play is an instant success and its author becomes famous overnight.

The play is quickly translated in different languages and performed all around the world, and even adapted for television later on.

Following its publication, Alfred Hitchcock meets with the author hoping to gain rights for a big screen adaptation. Unfortunately, the project never saw the light.

This theatrical success confirms however Robert Thomas as a dramatic author. From then on, he finds his specialty by combining detective story and boulevard theatre (light comedy).

The following year, he rewrites his first play (1958), Huit femmes, making a few changes and improving its first draft.

He dies in Paris on January 3rd 1989.