Liberty Bar Inspector Maigret, Georges Simenon
Liberty Bar Inspector Maigret, Georges Simenon
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Liberty Bar (Inspector Maigret)

Author: Georges Simenon, David Watson

Series: Inspector Maigret #17

Narrator: James Faulkner

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/09/2025


Synopsis

Sun, sand, the Côte d’Azur—and a mysterious dead man with multiple hidden lives. Who was Mr. Brown? And why does the mystery of his life preoccupy Maigret so?

Georges Simenon’s Maigret arrives in Antibes on the French Riviera tasked with discreetly solving the murder of one Mr. Brown, stabbed in the back as he returned to the house of his mistress and her mother. As Maigret investigates, he finds himself drawn to the seedy dive bar frequented by the late Mr. Brown, and strangely absorbed in his ruminations on the many secret lives of this cipher of a man. Is Maigret simply distracted by the sun, surf, and vacationers, or is there something else about the case that is preoccupying him? And is it keeping him from seeing the truth in this tale of murder on the Côte d’Azur?

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. An intrepid traveler with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand—and not to judge—the human condition in all its shades. His books include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on October 18, 2025

This is Maigret out of Paris solving a murder on the Riviera, out of sorts with instructions not to kick up a fuss and out of patience with the people he meets there. It’s also Maigret at his most compassionate—more at home with the down at heel aging widow still keeping bar, mothering her customers......more

Goodreads review by Mostafa on September 03, 2022

3 stars عموما در داستانهای جورج سیمنون، الکل نقش بسیار پر رنگی دارد... شخصیت مگره و دیگر شخصیت های داستان بسیار با الکل مرتبط هستند.... و این خود بیانگر و مُعرف پلیس فرانسه در اوایل قرن بیستم هست نویسنده در این داستان طبق معمولِ داستانهای جنایی شخصیت هایی را معرفی میکند که با مقتول مرتبط هستند و هر کد......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on January 31, 2016

Ay, Georges Simenon! Just when I think I’ve finally gotten the true measure of Chief Inspector Maigret, you write a 180-degree curve into a novel, making me reassess the French sleuth yet again. Let me explain. Antibes, the literal scene of the crime, is on the French Riviera between Nice and Cannes.......more

Goodreads review by Tittirossa on April 09, 2021

Non so perché avessi un bias contre-simenon (tipo il contre Saint Beuve di proustiana memoria). Forse perché avevo letto un paio di romanzi-non-maigret e mi ero fatta prendere dalla narrazione della storia, e non avevo fatto caso alla scrittura. Non so. O forse sono una snob, e lo valutavo lettura d......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on December 10, 2017

Well worth the time for the description and set mood of the 30’s French Riviera. And with the characters’ speech and manners it is a genuine time machine. The inimitable inspector Maigret seems to stumble around ailed with sunstroke and pernod overindulgence and initially seem to advance slowly with......more