num_pages: 160
description: One of the world’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers around the world since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In The Bar on the Seine , Maigret must visit a prisoner he arrested and bear the news that his reprieve has been refused and he will be executed at dawn. But when the condemned man tells Maigret a story, his investigations lead him to the Guinguette a Deux Sous, a bar by the River Seine, and into the seamy underside of bourgeois Parisian life.
language: English
title: The Bar on the Seine
titlecomplete: The Bar on the Seine
characters: Jean Lenoir, Albert Janvier, Victor Gaillard, Basso, Madame Basso, Louise Maigret, James (Two-Penny Bar), Mado Feinstein, André Lucas, Jules Maigret, Feinstein, Monsieur Ulrich
genres: 20th Century, Detective, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 1718
places: Paris, France
series: Inspector Maigret
publisher: Penguin Books