Book description
'I am the Saint - you may have heard of me. Just a twentieth-century
privateer. In my small way I try to put right a few of the things that
are wrong with this cock-eyed world' Simon Templar, aka the Saint. On
the side of the law and yet outside it, the Saint, exciting, debonair
and very slightly disreputable, lives for adventure. Here he is at his
ebullient best, spreading terror among London's drug dealers, rescuing a
lady crook from distress and much, much more. Introduced by Ken Follett,
this sparkling collection of the very best of the earlier stories
includes
The Lawless Lady
and The Elusive Ellshaw
. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919.
He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for
publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life
becoming, alongside Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, one of the 20th
century's most prolific and popular authors.
