Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 26, No. 4. Whole No. 143, October 1955

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We have given you our own high opinion of Georges Simenon’s work so often that we think the time has come to tell you what others say and feel about the man who has already written more than 350 books. For example, here is an American critic’s shrewd appraisal and comments: John K. Hutchens of the “New York Herald Tribune” wrote: Are we not all agreed that “this astonishing, prolific, many-sided writer is an artist?... with a swift, austere, impersonal style precisely suited to the demands made upon it... They now call his stories simenons, and that’s eminence for you — a writer’s name as a generic term for his work... his observer’s eye for detail, weather, clothes, customs, food, all the revealing ‘little facts,’ as Stendhal called them, is wonderfully true.”

And now let us hear from an anonymous critic on the “London Sunday Times”: “Ordinary readers buy Simenon’s books ‘as they buy their daily bread’ [certainly more true, we would say, in France than in America, or even in England]... in recent years eminent literary men have saluted his incisive style, and the clear-sighted, compassionate humanity which informs his writing.”

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