Catch the Saint (The Saint series) - Hardcover

Leslie Charteris

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9780385099363: Catch the Saint (The Saint series)

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ISBN 10: 0385099363 ISBN 13: 9780385099363

Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, 1975

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Two brand new stories that hark back to the thirties to recount some earlier escapades of that afficionado of the unexpected, that master of the unpredictable," Simon Templar. Also known as The Saint." ~ Includes the novellas The Masterpiece Merchant, and The Adoring Socialite.

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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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