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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.
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.
3) Saint Errant
Nine classic adventures for the Saint in which he finds out whether the female of the species really is more deadly than the male.
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.
...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.
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, 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.
Based on a two-part episode of Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy, the Saint takes part in a power-boat race, only for his main competitor’s boat to blow up midrace. As Simon comforts the man’s widow, he discovers some rather unusual behaviour, which leads to a rather unusual bunch of crooks…
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…
In Tenerife, the Saint discovers three thugs beating up an old man and a young, attractive woman, so he and Hoppy Uniatz have to intervene. But when the old man reveals himself to be a diamond cutter who’s just a lost a lottery ticket worth $2 million, life suddenly gets a lot more interesting for the Saint.
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.
13) Catch the Saint
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
...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 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.
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
...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 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.
20) The Saint on TV
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
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