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Leslie Charteris
The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
The fiction world of today needs a "Saint" more than…
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The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content.
The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual…
When the Saint goes fishing, he catches an unusual specimen in the shape of a young lady claiming to be Adolf Hitler’s daughter. And when the Ungodly also arrive on…
Two more adventures for the Saint based on episodes from the TV series starring Roger Moore: in ‘The Art Collectors’ the Saint comes across a collection of Old Masters that…
The Saint is in Portugal on the trail of a young woman whose father was in the US Army and disappeared towards the end of the war. Her father worked…
The Saint, Patricia and Monty Hayward are in Austria when they see a man being attacked by thugs. They intervene, but the victim seems remarkably ungrateful. When the man is…
The Saint is in New York on the trail of drug smuggling, dead bodies, and a singer who has the misfortune to work at a club owned by the loathsome…
The Saint is hired to protect Amos Klein, a secretive author who writes a popular and lucrative series of spy novels. Soon the Saint and Amos Klein are kidnapped by…
Two adventures based on episodes from Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy: In The Imprudent Professor the Saint is summoned by pretty Emma Maclett to prevent the kidnapping of…
Three … classic adventures for the Saint, in which he discovers some truly miraculous tea, agrees to meet a woman with some information on a major swindle–but finds her dead–and…
Two more adventures for the Saint: in The Pastor’s Problem, Simon tries to help his penniless friend, Father Bernardo, by stealing an invaluable silver chalice, only to discover some real…
Based on a character created by Leslie Charteris.
Two more adventures based on episodes from The Saint starring Roger Moore: In The Midas Double the Saint is kidnapped in the Athens airport and taken to the offices of…
Simon Templar is taking a leisurely drive though the French countryside when he picks up a couple of hitchhikers who are going to work at Chateau Ingare, a small vineyard…
When Simon and Patricia stumble upon a government scientist testing a weapon of mass destruction, the Saint decides to put a stop to it. But when the Saint’s archnemesis, Rayt…
Whether battling an adrenaline junkie who says he can cheat death, starting a revolution, or putting a drug and human trafficker out of business, the Saint always seems to have…
In these seven stories, Simon encounters competition in the jewel-thief business, a Ponzi scheme that isn’t what it seems, and other adventures that take him from Nassau to Cannes and…
In these two novellas, crooked charity collectors and bent boxing promoters attract the Saint’s attention… and will wish they hadn’t.
Two adventures based on episodes of The Saint with Roger Moore: In the first, Simon Templar is gassed by a toy soldier, shot with an arrow, mowed down with a…
Based on a two-part episode of Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy, the Saint takes part in a powerboat race only for his main competitor’s boat to blow up…
For weeks the Saint had been hunting two men across Europe–and one of them at least he had sworn to kill. Face-to-face with his quarry in London, Simon Templar takes…
Readers are sure to enjoy rediscovering how ably Simon Templar, a.k.a. the Saint, manages to add a little more tarnish to his notorious halo. In this caper, the murderous, seamy…
In this collection of short stories, the Saint intervenes to teach a motley bag of criminals the error of their ways. Crooked financiers, bookies, fake inventors, dodgy bankers, dealers in…
In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives tend not to last long. He deals with…
In these nine short stories, Simon has ample opportunity to show off his skills. He matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a hanging, gets the better of a…
Paul Rhys stars as The Saint in these two full-cast dramatizations, co-starring Patsy Kensit and Fiona Fullerton
Leslie Charteris square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought, and stole his way through Europe…
The Saint investigates a criminal gang called the Angels of Doom who, among other things, specialise in helping convicted felons escape the police. The leader of the gang, Jill Trelawney…
When a waiter at an Indian restaurant is crucified, and when a customer of that restaurant happens to be the infamous Simon Templar, it spells trouble for one of the…
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