Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221823 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-15
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 404 pages

Customer Reviews

How the Saint Makes His Debut
I read a Pocket Book Edition, and it contains three stories; "The Man Who Was Clever", "The Policeman With Wings", "The Lawless Lady".

This book is written after "The Last Hero", but it describes the Saint's adventures before "The Last Hero", how he makes his debut as a "Modern Robin Hood". In the foreword, Charteris states that this is the answer to the many people's question how the Saint gains the reputation that he already has in "The Last Hero".

The stories are rather simple and not so unique as later stories such as "The Saint and Mr. Teal". But I like them. Few dull parts and highly enjoyable. I particularly love the Saint of this era; youthful, gay and lively. And I also like his amiable and capable sidekick Roger Conway. It's a pity that he doesn't appear on later stories.

The Saint lays into the Ungodly in fine style
Rip roaring Boys Own stuff as Simon Templar sorts out Snake Ganning and various other members of London's late twenties Underworld, mixing wit, intelligence and good old fashioned rough housing to good effect.

Patricia Holm and Roger Conway are here too, with poor old Claud Eustace bringing up the rear.

Perhaps not Charteris' most polished piece of penmanship, in this early instalment of the Saint Saga, but don't let that put you off. All three short stories contained herein are entertaining - and what more can you ask for in a book?

First quality Saint
(The second of the Saint books, where Simon Templar really began to hit his stride. Charteris in later years didn't care for the first book, Meet the Tiger! very much.)

Consists of 2 novellas, "The Man Who Was Clever" and "The Lawless Lady". If you have The Saint: Five Complete Novels, then you already have this book as part of that one.

In "The Man Who Was Clever", the Saint takes on Edgar Hayn, a drug dealer who runs some undercover gambling operations in London. "The Lawless Lady" is more the story of Dicky Tremayne, one of the Saint's friends and another wearer of the halo, and his pursuit of Audrey Perowne.

Covers the first appearance of Inspector Teal, and the poor man's initial encounters with the Saint, when the Saint was first beginning to make his signature stick-figure drawings the terror of evildoers. In those days, the Saint operated with a team of four other Saints, and made a point of donating 10% of the take from every operation to charity (which helped rub the salt into Teal's wounds by underlining that the Saint had got away with it yet again...)