„Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret should never leave France. Like French wines, the French personality does not travel well. A Frenchman needs his ambience: he begins to fade if he gets too far from it. […] Maigret makes a poor bystander […] both the author and his inspector are obviously out of sorts.“ Zitiert nach: Anatole Broyard: Books Of The Times. In: The New York Times vom 12. Dezember 1980.
„particularly anti-American novel“. Zitiert nach: Jack Edmund Nolan: Simenon on the Screen. In: Films in Review magazine Vol. XVI, No. 7, August/September 1965, S. 419–437.
