Saint: 5 Complete Novels

by Leslie Charteris

Book Overview

Simon Templar is a thief known as The Saint because of his initials (ST) and because his heroic exploits fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation. Templar has aliases, often using the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517403048
• ISBN13: 9780517403044
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 663 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Early swashbuckling Saint.

Contains Enter the Saint (which is in turn made up of "The Man Who Was Clever" and "The Lawless Lady"), The Last Hero/The Saint Closes the Case, The Avenging Saint/Knight Templar, and The Saint vs Scotland Yard."Adventure came to him not so much because he sought it as because he brazenly expected it. He believed that life was full of adventure, and he went forward in the full blaze and surge of that belief." -- from The Last HeroStarts with the 2nd of the Saint's adventures, which was the first where the Saint really began to hit his stride. (Charteris himself didn't like the first Saint book, Meet the Tiger, very much.) In those days, the Saint was accompanied not only by Patricia Holm, but by other wearers of the halo: Roger Conway (see esp. The Avenging Saint), Dicky Tremayne (see esp. Enter the Saint), Norman Kent (see esp. The Last Hero).These books cover the first appearances of: Claude Eustace Teal of Scotland Yard, Rayt Marius the arms dealer, and Prince Rudolf.