To Any Lengths | |
Title Orig: | French: Signé Picpus |
Translator: | Geoffrey Sainsbury, David Coward |
Author: | Georges Simenon |
Country: | Belgium |
Language: | French |
Series: | Inspector Jules Maigret |
Genre: | Detective fiction, Crime fiction |
Publisher: | Gallimard |
Release Date: | 1944 |
English Release Date: | 1950 |
Media Type: | |
Preceded By: | Maigret and the Spinster |
Followed By: | Maigret and the Toy Village |
To Any Lengths (other English-language titles are Maigret and the Fortuneteller and Signed, Picpus; French: Signé Picpus) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret.
The book has been translated three times into English: in 1950 as To Any Lengths and in 1989 as Maigret and the Fortuneteller translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury and in 2015 as Signed, Picpus translated by David Coward.[1]
The novel has been adapted several times for cinema and television:[2]