Simon Templar Books
Dashing adventurer Simon Templar, known as "The Saint," plunges into danger when he arrives in the sleepy village of Baycombe. Mysterious attacks and shocking secrets swirl around the enigmatic Pill Box where he makes his home. With his trusted companion Orace by his side and the beguiling Patricia Holm drawn into the fray, the Saint matches wits against the shadowy Tiger and his ruthless band. From London to the Devon coast, Templar follows a trail of stolen gold and hidden identities, risking his life at every turn. In a world of deception, can the Saint's peerless bravado and razor-sharp cunning unmask the Tiger and thwart a criminal conspiracy? Leslie Charteris' classic thriller crackles with wit and high-octane action as it introduces the much-loved character of Simon Templar in his first unforgettable adventure.
Simon Templar tangles with the notorious ‘Snake’ Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels, and busts a drug-smuggling racket. He may not always stay on the right side of the law, but with his swashbuckling charm and Robin Hood morality, he is clearly on the side of the angels.
When Simon and Patricia stumble upon a government scientist testing a weapon of mass destruction, the Saint decides to put a stop to it. But when the Saint’s archnemesis, Rayt Marius, turns up, the Saint’s plans go astray, leading one of his friends to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The lovely Sonia Delmar takes a bite of chocolate - and thereby involves Simon Templar in the most thrilling adventure of his young career. Seems the young lady is an American munitions heiress...and the chocolate is drugged.The game is kidnapping, blackmail and international turmoil in the very vulnerable Europe of 1930. And though the Saint's allies are the stalwart Roger Conway and the powerful Sir Isaac Lessing, his adversaries are equally Rayt Marius, who would sacrifice the lives of millions for his own profit; Prince Rudolph who fancies himself the new Napoleon; and Vassilov, agent of the Kremlin...
For many years the Saint was at war equally with criminals and the law. That led to trouble, and one day the Saint finally made his peace with the law and joined Scotland Yard. The next day he met the rather lovely leader of a gang and joined her in a venture so daring that before it was accomplished, the Saint found himself facing the wrong end of a gun belonging to a commissioner at Scotland Yard.
Whether battling an adrenaline junkie who says he can cheat death, starting a revolution in a Central American country, or putting a drug smuggler and human trafficker out of business, the Saint seems to be having fun.
In these three classic tales, the Saint takes an office job with a twist, tackles the ultimate locked-room mystery, and stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things are happening.
For many years the Saint was at war equally with criminals and the law. That led to trouble, and one day the Saint finally made his peace with the law and joined Scotland Yard. The next day he met the rather lovely leader of a gang and joined her in a venture so daring that before it was accomplished, the Saint found himself facing the wrong end of a gun belonging to a commissioner at Scotland Yard.
Three more classic tales in which the Saint finally pays his tax bill…only to discover that the taxman has a rather unhealthy hobby for some. Then a good deed leads the Saint to discover a plot to undermine the Italian economy, and his plans to retire are interrupted when a couple of homicidal diamond smugglers object to his interference in their plans.
The Saint is on holiday in Austria and promising to behave himself, but when he sees a man being attacked by thugs, he feels obliged to intervene. The stranger seems remarkably ungrateful, and soon it’s clear why, for he is a thief with a prize that men will kill for. Soon the Saint is in a race against time, the police, and his old enemy Prince Rudolf to keep hold of the loot.
Readers are sure to enjoy rediscovering how ably Simon Templar, a.k.a. the Saint, manages to add a little more tarnish to his notorious halo. In this caper, the murderous, seamy life of Paris's Left Bank follows the Saint back to London and silently stalks its prey. This is the second installment of this classic series.
“The art of crime,” said Simon Templar, “is to be versatile,” and in these fifteen tales the Saint is as good as his word. Whilst dispensing his own brand of justice to a rich assortment of villains, he kisses a policewoman, buys a racehorse, recovers a stolen treaty, and plans “The Perfect Crime.”
Crooked financiers, bookies, fake inventors, dodgy bankers, porn dealers, unethical businessmen, murderers, thieves, and liars―all will come to regret the day they came to the attention of the Saint.
Three classic adventures for the Saint in which he tackles a criminal who kills people before they can reveal his identity, tracks down a man who died a year ago, and goes to a sleepy seaside pub disturbed by mysterious underground rumblings. One thing’s for sure―despite death threats, gun battles, and kidnapping, the Saint will go on…
Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones’s locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?
Murder, forgery, theft, and blackmail in aid of a civil war―just an amusing interlude for the Saint.
A peaceful moonlight drive in the English countryside is interrupted when Simon Templar and Patricia Holm listen to a disturbing radio broadcast from France by a would-be dictator who plans to make France the latest in a growing number of European dictatorships under a ruling party called the Sons of France. This broadcast disturbs Patricia, and Templar makes a dire (and, as events were to unfold in real life in the next few years, accurate) prediction that the future of Europe will be one of invasions and concentration camps.The two adventurers are interrupted in their worries when they spot a house on fire in the distance. Rushing to help, Templar enters the burning building but is unable to rescue a man trapped inside. Later, he and Patricia learn that one of the occupants of the house is a known war profiteer who is expected to make millions off both sides should a new European war erupt.
Three more classic adventures for the Saint in which he discovers some truly miraculous tea, agrees to meet a woman with some information on a major swindle―but finds her dead―and, in the last story, decides to take the self-appointed guardian of the nation’s morality down a peg or two, only to end up in the aftermath of a bank robbery…
Nine classic short stories in which the Saint tackles a clever detective who isn’t actually all that smart, a well-meaning mayor, a French count, a man who likes ants, and a producer who, much to the Saint’s surprise, turns out to be quite smart. Whether it’s gala dinners or poker competitions, the Saint finds adventures to enjoy…
The Saint and Patricia are invited to stay with friends in Miami, but when they arrive, the friends are nowhere to be seen. After a tanker explodes off the coast and a dead sailor gets washed up on shore, the Saint suspects a link between all three, plus millionaire yachtsman Randolph March, who’s staying nearby. Soon the Saint discovers a Nazi ring operating out of Florida.
When the Saint visits Arizona, he battles a Nazi scientist whose interest in ranching is prompted by the mercury deposits underneath the ranch. In Palm Springs, an alcoholic millionaire hires him after a series of near-fatal accidents. And real danger ensues in Hollywood when an enterprising producer decides the Saint should be a movie star―but then the producer turns up dead.
With the Second World War underway, the Saint has turned respectable, working for a secret branch of the government to take on a case nobody else can touch. In Washington, a young woman asks for his help―her father, a noted scientist, has created a new form of synthetic rubber, but now he has disappeared and she is under threat.
More war-time adventures for the Saint: When a shipment of iridium is stolen, the Saint plots to recover the goods, only to be framed for the murder of one of his prime leads. Then in Texas, the Saint’s attempts to track down a man who’s been sabotaging weapons factories is frustrated when his main suspect turns up burnt to a crisp…
The Sizzling Saboteur - The Saint travels to Galveston, Texas in pursuit of a man who has been sabotaging weapons factories, but when his quarry turns up burned to crisp, he has to contend with both the local police, a trio of mysterious men behind the sabotage, and a beautiful Russian. The story includes an element of metafiction as the name Leslie Charteris is mentioned within the story. This edition doesn't include The Black Market.
When the Saint goes for a drink in a New York nightclub―Cookie’s Cellar―he discovers the rather lovely nightclub singer Avalon Dexter; however, he soon meets the less lovely Cookie herself.
With the invaluable assistance of Hoppy Uniatz and the help of a beautiful actress, the Saint tracks down the King of the Beggars, instigator of an ugly racket designed to exploit the beggars of the city. And then he must turn to fight a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing―including murder―to make “The Masked Angel” a champion boxer.
The book consisted of 9 "Judith" aka "The Naughty Niece" "Iris" aka "The Old Routine" "Lida" aka "The Foolish Frail" "Jeannine" aka "The Lovely Sinner" "Lucia" aka "The Homecoming of Amadeo Urselli" "Teresa" aka "The Uncertain Widow" "Luella" aka "The Saint and the Double Badger" "Emily" aka "The Doodlebug" "Dawn" aka "The Darker Drink"Early editions of the book use only the single female names for the titles of the different stories. Several stories were novelisations of radio show episodes.
In Paris the Saint falls upon a curious murder; in Amsterdam, he hoists a crook with his own petard; by the Rhine, he deals out justice to a swindler; in the Tyrol, he surprises a rich American; at Lucerne, he is involved in murder; in Juan-les-Pins, he loses an opportunity; and in Rome, he falls prey to terrorists.
The Saint is a traditionalist. He knows what a good pirate story needs: gold, hidden treasure, smugglers, dastardly villains, and damsels in distress. From Bimini to Nassau, via Jamaica and Haiti, the Saint travels the Caribbean, interrupting his holidays to settle disputes, solve murders, overthrow governments, and hunt for treasure.
In these six stories, Simon Templar’s uncanny ability to find an adventure wherever he goes leads him into some very strange affairs. In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives tend not to last long. He deals with a murder in a nudist colony, hunts for oil, matches wits with a woman as ruthless as he is, and goes fishing for a drug-smuggling ring.
In these nine tales, Simon has a chance to show off his skills: he matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a hanging, gets the better of a patent-pill millionaire, solves a locked-room murder in a secret laboratory, goes fishing, turns journalist, and ends the book with a bang.
Mexico, Cuba, and Panama―that’s where the modern-day Robin Hood engages in somewhat revolutionary activities with ice-cold blondes, bedroom-eyed redheads, con men, and knife men, not to mention stealing pearls from a blind man.
Six more classic adventures: there’s a murky tale of blackmail at a candy convention; a chance to turn the tables on an unscrupulous real-estate broker; a confidence trickster with a keen grasp of math; a scientific invention that is too good to be true; some respectable ladies with a secret to be kept; and a criminal lawyer who’s perhaps too close to the criminals he represents.
In these six stories, the Saint encounters unscrupulous fraudsters in Hamburg; a confrontation with a rhino; perfect murders in Paris; a temperance leader deserving to be taken down a peg or two; a thief duping tourists in Sweden; and the hunt for the most famous monster of them all, on the shores of Loch Ness. You can trust the Saint to deal with anything life throws at him with charm, imagination, and steely determination.
Whether in Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Nassau, or Lucerne, the Saint always finds some action to interest him. In these seven stories, Simon faces competition in the jewel-thief business, encounters an unpleasant movie mogul, uncovers a Ponzi scheme that isn’t what it seems, deals with sabotage in the world of motor racing, finds a missing body, tangles with the Russians, and rescues an heiress.
The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli―provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten…until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered. Soon the Robin Hood of modern crime is pitted against the archevil, centuries-old traditions of the Mafia…
Two adventures based on episodes from The Saint with Roger Moore: In the first, Simon Templar is gassed by a toy soldier, shot with an arrow, mowed down with a sub-machine gun, and blown up by a plastic bomb hidden in a light fixture. The Saint has become an unwilling participant in “The Death Game.” In the second tale, having discovered who was behind The Death Game, the Saint discovers a blackmailer of evil distinction who just won’t give up.
When the Saint goes fishing, he catches an unusual specimen in the shape of a young lady claiming to be Adolf Hitler’s daughter. And when the Ungodly also arrive on the scene, it seems clear the fish will just have to wait…
The Saint is hired to protect Amos Klein, a secretive author who writes a popular and lucrative series of spy novels. Soon the Saint and Amos Klein are kidnapped by members of SWORD, the evil organisation from Klein’s novels. It seem the world created by the famous author has truly come to life…
Two more adventures for the Saint based on episodes from the TV series starring Roger Moore: in “The Art Collectors” the Saint comes across a collection of Old Masters that have been hidden for many years, but then the art collector herself goes missing…and in “The Persistent Patriots” the Saint comes to the aid of the prime minister of Nagawiland when he becomes the target for blackmail and assassination.
The Saint is in Portugal on the trail of a young woman whose father was in the US Army and disappeared towards the end of the war. Her father worked as an investigator, tracing large sums of money. Soon the Saint and the Ungodly are on the trail of Nazi gold.
When a waiter at an Indian restaurant is crucified and when a customer of that restaurant happens to be the infamous Simon Templar, it spells trouble for one of the more unusual import-export businesses that you’ve ever heard of.
On an errand of mercy for an elderly neighbour, Simon Templar meets a distraught but beautiful damsel in distress. It seems she is missing her brother…and someone else is missing a Rembrandt. Soon the Saint discovers the two are connected, and he’s on the trail of “The Masterpiece Merchant.” In Philadelphia, the Saint meets a lovely young heiress at a charity ball, only to discover that another member of the party is a leading figure in organised crime.
On the eve of World War II, the Saint is in Vienna, where his attentions are divided between a sensuous countess and some legendary diamonds―both of which he is trying to keep out of Nazi hands.
Two more adventures based on episodes from The Saint starring Roger Moore: In “The Midas Double” the Saint is kidnapped in the Athens airport and taken to the offices of Diogenes Patroclos―a Greek shipping magnate haunted by a bizarre doppelgänger. Reluctantly, Simon accepts the job of locating the double, only to track down the imposter in London and find that his quarry has exactly the same story. In “The Pawn Gambit” the Saint impersonates a band of killers known as “The Squad” and completes his mission with his own special brand of justice…
Two adventures based on episodes from Return of the Saint , starring Ian Ogilvy: In “The Imprudent Professor” the Saint is summoned by pretty Emma Maclett to prevent the kidnapping of her father, an eminent scientist with world-changing ideas on the large-scale provision of solar energy. In “The Red Sabbath” the Saint tracks down an Arab terrorist on behalf of Israeli intelligence.
Simon Templar is taking a leisurely drive though the French countryside when he picks up a couple of hitchhikers who are going to work at Chateau Ingare, a small vineyard on the site of a former stronghold of the Knights Templar. At the Chateau, the Saint discovers a noble family seemingly plagued by a curse.