Alias The Saint by Leslie Charteris

The Saint

 

Professor Ramses Smith-Smyth-Smythe of Timbuctoo was a firm believer in the cheerful hospitality of the English countryside, until he registered for the night at the Beacon Inn, where: first his waiter fed him knock out drops, and then the chauffeur wrecked his car, and then the porter ransacked his bags.

Of course, the fact that Professor Smythe was 

Alias The Saint

Might have had some effect on the temperature of his welcome

And before the night was over, Simon Templar managed to put just a little more tarnish on his notorious halo. All in the cause of Truth and Justice of course!

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

Hodder and Stoughton 

May 1931

Includes the short stories:

The Story of a Dead Man

The Impossible Crime

The National Debt

Ace Charter Books 

January 1980

ISBN 441 01350

Includes the short stories:

The National Debt

The Man Who Could Not Die

Bonus Cover

The Saint And Mr. Teal by Leslie Charteris

The Saint Outwits Scotland Yard

The Saint vs Scotland Yard

Trapped by murderers, thieves, and vice lords on one side and Scotland Yard on the other, the Saint battles his way out of a tight corner.

Contains three novellas

The Gold Standard

The Man from St. Louis

The Death Penalty

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

 

Hodder and Stoughton (UK)

January 1933 

Doubleday& Company (USA)

May 1933

Avon Books

#629 

1955

Trivia

Original title was Once More For The Saint

The Saint Sees It Through by Leslie Charteris

Simon Templar Fights An International Dope Ring

The Saint pits himself against a lovely lady, 

and unflappable psychiatrist, 

and a maze of murder.

The Saint, who sometimes travels under the name Simon Templar, collides with the weirdest group of sinister characters he's ever met, including a mysterious European psychiatrist, a monstrous glandular freak, and a peculiar lady poet. Something sinister linked them all together, and Simon has to find out what it was. The key might be the suave shrink. Then again, it might be Avalon Dexter, the sexy singer with the sincere smile. And the gift for getting The Saint tangled up in the murderous riddle.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

The Crime Club (USA)

1946

Hodder and Stoughton  (UK)

1947 

Avon Publications, Inc

T-619

First Printing May 1951

Second Printing November 1954

Curtis Books

07209 

Trivia

This was the final full-length novel featuring Templar to be solely written by Charteris, as the author chose to concentrate on short stories and novella-length Saint stories hereafter.

The Saint to The Rescue by Leslie Charteris

A collection of Six short stories

 

1) The Ever-Loving Spouse: Simon Templar is asked for help by a man who was tricked into being in a compromising position.

2) The Fruitful Land: The man that the Saint has targeted for justice does not believe the Saint really exists.

3) The Percentage Player: The con man that the Saint goes up against does nothing that is not mathematically favorable to him.

4) The Water Merchant: The invention was too good to be believed and the Saint was the chief non-believer.

5) The Gentle Ladies: Two elderly ladies in a small village in England are being preyed upon by a blackmailer.

6) The Element of Doubt: A shady lawyer gets a arsonist acquitted and the Saint wants to see justice is done. 

 Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

 Crime Club Doubleday
1959

H&S
1961

The Saint In Miami by Leslie Charteris

The Saint uncovers a Nazi Spy Ring operating out of Florida.

One of Patricia Holm's friends sends an invitation for Patricia and her friend, Simon Templar to visit Miami. Upon arrival, however, The Saint and Patricia discover Pat's friend and her husband are nowhere to be found. They take up residence in the friend's house. A few days later, a tanker explodes off the Florida coast and Simon discovers the dead body of a sailor washed up on shore. Attached to the wrist of the body is a lifebelt from the British submarine H.M.S. Triton. Simon suspects a link between the disappearance of Patricia's friends, the explosion, and a millionaire yachtsman named Randolph March. March's yacht is moored not far from the explosion, and Templar launch the investigation by climbing aboard the yacht, leaving the sailor's corpse in a stateroom for the police to find, and challenging March to give up his secrets.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

  Hodder and Stoughton

1941

 

Doubleday's The Crime Club

1940

Saint Overboard by Leslie Charteris

The Pirate Saint

The Saint is enjoying a pleasure cruise along the French coast aboard his yacht, the Corsair, when he is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of gunfire and shouting from another vessel anchored nearby. A group of men pursuing a young woman who is swimming frantically away from the other ship. Simon Templar rescues the woman who identifies herself as Loretta Page, a private detective, who is investigating the mysterious disappearance of sunken treasure from the Atlantic.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

  Hodder and Stoughton

1936

 

Doubleday's The Crime Club

1936

 

The Saint In New York by Leslie Charteris

The first "bestseller" of the Simon Templar series, and was the book that established Charteris as a literary celebrity in both America and Britain. Due to the book's popularity, it became the first Simon Templar story to be adapted for film.

During a visit to Europe, Simon Templar befriends a rich American whose son was recently murdered in New York City. The culprit went free due to police and courtroom corruption. Templar is given an offer he can't refuse, a cool $1 million if he goes to New York and deals out his unique brand of justice to evildoers in that city.
 

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

  Hodder and Stoughton

1935

 

Doubleday

January 1935

 

The American Magazine (shorter version)

September 1934

  

The Film

1938

Cast

Louis Hayward as Simon Templar

Kay Sutton as Fay Edwards
Sig Ruman as Hutch Rellin 

Jonathan Hale as Inspector Henry Fernack
Jack Carson as Red Jenks

Paul Guilfoyle as Hymie Fanro

Frederick Burton as William Valcross

Knight Templar by Leslie Charteris

The title is a pun on the religious organization Knights Templar

The Saint has found himself back in Britain and again on the trail of arms dealer Marius. While executing a scheme to root Marius out from hiding by infiltrating a bogus nursing home, Templar and his associate Roger Conway rescue who they initially think is an elderly man held prisoner by one of Marius' compatriots Templar soon discovers that they've actually rescued the beautiful daughter of a millionaire upon whose safety relies world peace.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

  Hodder and Stoughton

October 1930

as The Avenging Saint

Enter The Saint by Leslie Charteris

A collection of three interconnected adventure novellas

The Man Who Was Clever: Simon Templar seeks to bring a drug smuggler to justice. In this story, Templar is shown in the process of establishing his reputation as a crime buster working with a team of mysterious individuals 

The Policeman with Wings: A direct follow-up to the above, this story shows Templar's reputation continuing to grow as he and his compatriot Roger Conway investigate two kidnappings connected to a bag of stolen diamonds.

The Lawless Lady: Templar appears only briefly in this story which focuses on one of his agents, Dicky Tremaine, who infiltrates a crime ring intent on some seaside larceny, only to fall in love with its female leader.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

  Hodder and Stoughton

October 1930

Doubleday's The Crime Club

April 1931

Meet The Tiger by Leslie Charteris

Introducing The Saint

Simon Templar is introduced as a young adventurer 27 years of age, who is also independently wealthy and is accompanied by a manservant named Orace. Templar and Orace stay in a place that Simon purchased from the Ministry of Defence in the small North Devon seaside town of Baycombe. The intent is to foil a plan by a mysterious individual known only as "The Tiger" to smuggle stolen gold. Templar's motivation is to settle an old score with The Tiger, with whom he has had prior dealings though he's never actually met the villain, and return the gold to its proper owner and collect a reward.

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)

 Ward Lock (UK)

September 1928

as Meet – the Tiger!

 Doubleday's The Crime Club

March 1929 

as Crooked Gold 

Amalgamated Press 

1929 

Meet – the Tiger! The Saint in Danger

Sun Dial Press

1940

The Film

The Saint Meets the Tiger

1943

Cast

Hugh Sinclair as Templar

Jean Gillie as Patricia Holm

 Wylie Watson as Horace 

Clifford Evans as the Tiger.

The Saint's Getaway by Leslie Charteris

The Return of the Saint

The Saint had decided to turn over a new leaf. 

But he hadn't reckoned with Prince Rudolf. 

Nor with his old enemy's hankering for diamonds......

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charteris

copyright 1932

Published under the title Get Away

Hodder and Stoughton

Coronet Books

ISBN 340 01731

First Printing 1965

4th Impression 1978

Paging the Saint by Leslie Charteris

A Bonded Mystery

Contains

The Man Who Could Not Die

and

The Story Of A Dead Man

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charteris

copyright 1941

Originally published under the title 

Wanted For Murder

The Jacobs Publishing Company

July 1945

The Saint And the Templar Treasure by Leslie Charteris

The Return of The Saint

Chance brought the Saint to the Chateau Ingare, in Provence. But when his visit entangled him in a bitter struggle for the mysterious treasure of the Knights Templar, he could not help feeling that Fate had a hand in it too....

Printing History

Written by Leslie Charteris

Original Outline by Donne Avenell

Developed by Graham Weaver

copyright 1978

Coronet Books

ISBN 340 23934

Staring

Ian Ogilvy as Simon Templar

Trivia

I remember watching this program on late night tv with the New Avengers and Night Stalker.