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About the Author
Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore on May 12th, 1907. With his mother and brother, he moved to England in 1919 and attended Rossall School in Lancashire before moving on to Cambridge University to study law. His studies there came to a halt when a publisher accepted his first novel. His third book, entitled Meet the Tiger!, was written when he was twenty years old and published in September 1928. It introduced the world to Simon Templar, aka the Saint.He continued to write about the Saint until 1983 when the last book, Salvage for the Saint, was published. The books, which have been translated into over thirty languages, number nearly a hundred and have sold over 40 million copies around the world. They’ve inspired, to date, fifteen feature films, three TV series, ten radio series, and a comic strip that was written by Charteris and syndicated around the world for over a decade. He enjoyed travelling but settled for long periods in Hollywood, Florida, and finally in Surrey, England. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1992, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement. He died the following year.To find out more about Leslie Charteris and his work, visit www.lesliecharteris.com.
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Product details
Series: The Saint (Book 34)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer; New edition (June 24, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1477842934
ISBN-13: 978-1477842935
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,043,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I enjoy the Saint stories, and the variety of stories here is quite enjoyable.
Lesllie Charteris did it again; he created an extremely entertaining compilation of stories featuring our favorite 20th Century Robin Hood, Simon Templar. I heartily endorse it!
Six great stories. I espespecially liked The Patient Playboy for the return of Inspector Teale.
This Saint book (one of Charteris’ later ones) consists of six short stories. I would rate three of them as excellent, one as quite good, and two as only just OK. For me, the best one is the last one, “The Element of Doubtâ€.Several of these stories were turned into early episodes of the TV version of the Saint. These too were quite entertaining, but not as good as the book versions. And the TV Saint does not have the same hard, ruthless edge as the book Saint does.To look at the positive side first, this book has plenty of examples of Charteris’ amusing writing, such as this paragraph from one of the stories, where an attractive married woman “comes on†to the Saint:“She came so close, deliberately, that the first time they both inhaled simultaneously would have caused a most stimulating collision.â€It also amuses me that Charteris occasionally throws in some really obscure word which in a lifetime of reading I’ve never come across before, and which I have to look up.In some of the Saint books, I find that Charteris goes over the top in impressing upon us just what a dashing, tall, handsome, blue-eyed, debonair, witty, adventure-loving buccaneer the Saint is. But in this volume he doesn’t do that – which is another plus.On the negative side, in one story Charteris has the Saint spouting some awful reactionary and racist nonsense, when he condemns foreign aid and sings the praises of the British Empire for “taming savages†etc!In general, there is much less racism in the Saint books than in most of the crime fiction of that period. (Charteris himself was of mixed Chinese-British parentage.) But this rant by the Saint is certainly off-putting.This is a pity, especially when at other times Charteris can express, through the mouths of his characters, some pretty progressive, and even left-radical, views. (I’ve said more on this in my review here on Amazon of “The Saint Intervenesâ€.)Overall, I am a fan of the Saint books, but rather a selective one. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed some of them (as I did when I first read some as a teenager in the 1960s), but I’ve been disappointed with others. This one is certainly worth reading.Finally, I know that many Saint fans prefer the novella-length or full-length Saint stories, but for a bit of light entertainment that you can dip into, I personally prefer the short stories which feature in this book and in others such as “The Saint Intervenesâ€, “The Brighter Buccaneerâ€, “The Happy Highwaymanâ€, “Saint Errant†and “The Saint in Europeâ€. These short stories tend to be even more fast-paced than the longer ones; they have the usual Charteris brand of humour; and some of them have genuinely surprising endings.PS: This is a review of "The Saint to the Rescue". Due to some fault on Amazon it has also appeared in error as a review of "The Saint around the World". I've also noticed that a couple of other reviews here by other people have been put by Amazon on the wrong one of these two books.Phil Webster.(England)
Six stories, of moderate length:• in "The Patient Playboy" (Bermuda) Simon tries to help a wife recover her kidnapped husband.• "The Talented Husband" (England) finds the Saint helping dear old Claud Eustace Teal to solve his last case before he retires.• in "The Reluctant Nudist" (France) Simon solves a particularly egregious murder.• in "The Lovelorn Sheikh" (The Middle East) he helps an oil prospector who has had the misfortune to fall foul of a local potentate, producing a potentially drastic confrontation with Islamic law.• "The Pluperfect Lady" (Malaya ) is perhaps the best story of the bunch, taking place during what the British euphemistically call The Malayan Emergency, i.e. a guerilla campaign (1948-60) fought to prevent a communist takeover. The characters and background are skilfully drawn, and there are interesting allusions to the Saint's early days in the country, even before the start of Meet the Tiger.• "The Sporting Chance" (Vancouver), with its rather banal Cold War stereotypes, is the poorest story, despite the nostalgic reference to Norman Kent (of The Last Hero).One of the nice things about all the Saint stories is that Charteris always seems intimately familiar with the different locations he writes about.Am I alone in thinking that product placements seem to have found their way into the later ones — in this instance, for Dry Sack (sherry) and Peter Dawson (whisky)? The sentence construction and the repeated mention of the brand names both seem uncharacteristically clumsy.3½ stars.P.S. For a list of — and discussion of — all Charteris's Saint books, see my So You'd Like To... Guide.
This is the first Saint book I've read and after the first few stories I'd decided to start at the beginning of the series, but then I came to the racist/sexist story (I'm not sure if the sexist part was supposed to be taken at face value, but there's no way to excuse the racist parts), so as much as I liked letting a guy get away with killing his blackmailers and scamming scammers, I won't be reading any more unless I can be assured that story was an outlier.
This series of Saint stories seems to have been written during the popular TV series as one can easily imagine Roger Moore in the role of the Saint. All stories are quite interesting.
Six tales; set in San Francisco, Florida (twice), California (twice) and Mississippi.As previously, although the plots have by now become rather formulaic, the details remain inventive.3½ stars.P.S. For a list of — and discussion of — all Charteris's Saint books, see my So You'd Like To... Guide.
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