The Saint in Europe

by Leslie Charteris

Book Overview

Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him.In seven adventures 'round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441748864
• ISBN13: 9780441748860
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Saint on the Old Continent

Leslie Charteris' _The Saint in Europe_ (1953) is a solid collection of seven adventures of Simon Templar ("the Saint"). This collection marked the 25th anniversary of that Boisterous Buccaneer of Crime. It was preceded by _Saint Errant_ (1948) and was followed by _The Saint on the Spanish Main_ (1955). Most of the stories in this collection were aired on the TV series starring Roger Moore between 1962 and 1966. The stories (along with their geographic locales) are: "The Covetous Headsman" (Paris), "The Angel's Eye" (Amsterdam), "The Rhine Maiden" (the Rhine), "The Golden Journey" (Tirol), "The Loaded Tourist" (Lucerne), "The Spanish Cow" (Juan-Les-Pins), and "The Latin Touch" (Rome). The first two stories are mysteries that the Saint stoops to solve on rare occasion. The first involves a murderous Frenchman, and the second involves some double Crostics with a gigantic, rare diamond. Two stories ("The Rhine Maiden" and "The Golden Journey") feature some unusual heroines. In the first tale, it is an eighteen-year-old girl whom Templar judges to be what a Rhine beauty _ought_ to be like. In the second tale, she is a spoiled heiress whom Simon kidnaps and takes on a backpacking trip (for her own good, of course!). In "Maiden," Simon ends up concealing a murder. In "Journey," he teaches the proper way to scramble eggs. In "The Loaded Tourist," the Saint tangles with a couple of Swiss thugs and is forced to employ his alias of Sebastion Tombs.