Simon Liebman

In La Maison du péril, the France Télévisions adaptation of Peril at End House for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Simon Liebman is a German doctor and a house guest of Joséphine de Vilmarais, the Nick Buckley parallel. There are elements in his backstory that make him a vague parallel of George Challenger but also substantial differences. Simon Liebman is portrayed by Stefan Kollmuss.

What matches George Challenger is that Liebman is in love with Joséphine. Here he has asked her to marry him and go with him to New York. However Joséphine turns him down. Liebman's backstory is different in every other respect. There is no drug peddling sideplot here. Liebman has fled Germany because his Jewish ethnicity has meant that he cannot work there anymore. He has also been suspected by the German police of murdering his wife, an incident for which he has no alibi, although he strenuously protests his innocence.

After several attempts are made on Joséphine's life, Liebman flees from the house and disappers. In the case of Eléonore, Liebman's cap is found near the crime scene. This and the fact that he runs away naturally leads him to be considered a prime suspect.

Liebman is later stopped and arrested at a police road block. Questioned by Larosière, he explains that he feels he is bound to be suspected and blamed because he is Jewish. He also fears most being extradited to Germany.

At the end of the episode, Larosière helps Liebman escape and wishes him well in his new life in America.