Maigret in New York - 27

He could still see him: short, thin, dressed almost too correctly.

There was nothing special about his face. So what was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? ... Little John had cold eyes ... Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact, without giving any sense of the universal human need to communicate with one's fellow man.