From the perspective of “novelistic criticism”, this article intends to demonstrate the existence of an absent text in Louis Hémon’s novel, Maria Chapdelaine. Highlighted with transmedia storytelling (the films of Gilles Carle, Marc Allégret and Julien Duvivier) and literary paraphrases, this text concerns the death of François Paradis. We will arrive to the inevitable conclusion that the beautiful adventurer did not “get away” (“écarté”), but that he was assassinated by a character for whom this disappearance could only be profitable.