 Reviewing the book under its American title "Don't Look Now", Margaret Millar of The New York Times was lukewarm.While acknowledging du Maurier's popularity, she felt the book to be a collection of five uneasy pieces in which "the reader is given an intriguing situation, a series of neatly planted clues and a generous number of plot twists".Du Maurier's biographer Margaret Forster considered "Not After Midnight" to be a 'not very successful story', demonstrating how the author's liking for intricate plot could lead her into complications which made her writing tortuous.