Title: Liberty bar
First published: 1977
Description: In his suit and bowler hat Superintendent Maigret feels out of place among the palm trees, the bright colors, the half-clad, bronzed vacationers on the Côte d'Azur. And the murder case that has called him here seems, somehow, not serious. Who could have wanted to stab to death William Brown, a middle-aged Australian who lived in squalor with an overblown, overperfumed mistress and her officious mother and whose only vice, apparently, was going out on a binge once a month?

Maigret would rather lounge in the sun and sip Pernods than question cab drivers, search the bars of Cannes for that rare slot machine, or sit in a sordid little dive with a woman called Fat Jaja.

A deft, psychologically fascinating story of men who kick over the traces — and of men who don't. And of how human love and tenderness can theme in the ugliest, most degenerate soil.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Romance literature, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, French, French Detective and mystery stories, Translations into Russian, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, France, fiction, Филологические науки. Художественная литература -- Франция -- Французская литература -- 20 в. (1917-) -- до 1945 г. -- Произведения художественной литературы -- Художественная проза -- Романы. Повести. Рассказы -- Приключенческие и детективные романы, повести, рассказы
Places: Riviera, France
People: Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
LC classification: PQ2637.I53 L5 1977, PQ2637.I53 L513 1988