The Saint Around the World ebook

by Leslie Charteris

The Saint’s cool blue eyes drifted down the long verandah that overlooked Hamilton Harbor, but failed to make . Without any change of expression, the Saint’s bronzed face seemed to become opaque, like a mask from behind which his eyes probed with a sort of rueful cynicism.

The Saint’s cool blue eyes drifted down the long verandah that overlooked Hamilton Harbor, but failed to make any pertinent identification among the convivial mob. I’ve met so many people tonight, I couldn’t possibly remember half their names, he confessed disarmingly, and with an unblushing lack of truth. Now I’ll begin to think you’re suffering from too much lurid literature. You’d be wrong, she said flatly.

I’m looking for a lawyer myself, said the Saint. Only I want one who’s already embezzled at least five million dollars

The Saint Around the World. Bermuda: The patient playboy. I’m looking for a lawyer myself, said the Saint. Only I want one who’s already embezzled at least five million dollars. Have you known Havelock long enough to notice him flashing a lot of green stuff around? I’m sorry, she said stiffly. I suppose I was asking for it.

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin; 1907–1993) was a British-American writer best known for his series on stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as The Saint. Born in Singapore to a Chinese father, Suat Yin Chwan, and his English wife, Lydia (née Bowyer), Charteris travelled extensively with his family until beginning his education in England in 1919

This Saint book (one of Charteris’ later ones) consists of six short stories.

This Saint book (one of Charteris’ later ones) consists of six short stories. I would rate three of them as excellent, one as quite good, and two as only just OK. For me, the best one is the last one, The Element of Doubt. In some of the Saint books, I find that Charteris goes over the top in impressing upon us just what a dashing, tall, handsome, blue-eyed, debonair, witty, adventure-loving buccaneer the Saint is. But in this volume he doesn’t do that – which is another plus. On the negative side, in one story Charteris has the Saint spouting some awful reactionary and racist nonsense, when he condemns foreign aid and sings the praises of the British Empire for taming savages etc!

A mysterious summons and a hidden Nazi submarine scatter death from Miami's luxurious beach villas to the treacherous Everglades. The Saint Around the World (The Saint Series).

A mysterious summons and a hidden Nazi submarine scatter death from Miami's luxurious beach villas to the treacherous Everglades. The Saint Goes On (The Saint Series). 12 The Saint in London (The Misfortunes of Mr Teal). The Saint to the Rescue (The Saint Series).

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of the charming antihero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint. Charteris was born in Singapore to a Chinese father, Dr S. C. Yin (Yin Suat Chwan, 1877–1958), and Lydia Florence Bowyer, who was English

Read by Leslie Charteris

Read by Leslie Charteris. The fourth saint book I have read this year and in truth only the fourth I have ever read,although I am a late comer to this series of novels I can see why they were so attractive in the past the saint is a character that engages and looms large throughout the tales within and as a holiday read I do think these books would work well.

You’re curious, aren’t you? It’s natural. I was on a cruise boat that stopped here ame things about everything . . I was on a cruise boat that stopped here ame things about everything I’d go out of my mind. I decided to drive out to the Golf Club and ask if they’d let me play a round and be by myself for the first time for weeks

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Leslie Charteris Series: Saint. Other author's books: The Saint Meets the Tiger.

Around this time, Charteris also travelled on the Hindenburg on its . The Saintly Bible The Saint site. Leslie Charteris at the Internet Movie Database. The Saint, created by Leslie Charteris.

Around this time, Charteris also travelled on the Hindenburg on its successful maiden voyage to New Jersey. However, Charteris was excluded from permanent residency in the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law which prohibited immigration for persons of "50% or greater" Oriental blood. Charteris himself stepped away from writing the books after The Saint in the Sun (1963).

Direbringer

I enjoy the Saint stories, and the variety of stories here is quite enjoyable.

Dilkree

Six great stories. I espespecially liked The Patient Playboy for the return of Inspector Teale.

Tujar

This Saint book (one of Charteris’ later ones) consists of six short stories. I would rate three of them as excellent, one as quite good, and two as only just OK. For me, the best one is the last one, “The Element of Doubt”.

Several of these stories were turned into early episodes of the TV version of the Saint. These too were quite entertaining, but not as good as the book versions. And the TV Saint does not have the same hard, ruthless edge as the book Saint does.

To look at the positive side first, this book has plenty of examples of Charteris’ amusing writing, such as this paragraph from one of the stories, where an attractive married woman “comes on” to the Saint:

“She came so close, deliberately, that the first time they both inhaled simultaneously would have caused a most stimulating collision.”

It also amuses me that Charteris occasionally throws in some really obscure word which in a lifetime of reading I’ve never come across before, and which I have to look up.

In some of the Saint books, I find that Charteris goes over the top in impressing upon us just what a dashing, tall, handsome, blue-eyed, debonair, witty, adventure-loving buccaneer the Saint is. But in this volume he doesn’t do that – which is another plus.

On the negative side, in one story Charteris has the Saint spouting some awful reactionary and racist nonsense, when he condemns foreign aid and sings the praises of the British Empire for “taming savages” etc!

In general, there is much less racism in the Saint books than in most of the crime fiction of that period. (Charteris himself was of mixed Chinese-British parentage.) But this rant by the Saint is certainly off-putting.

This is a pity, especially when at other times Charteris can express, through the mouths of his characters, some pretty progressive, and even left-radical, views. (I’ve said more on this in my review here on Amazon of “The Saint Intervenes”.)

Overall, I am a fan of the Saint books, but rather a selective one. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed some of them (as I did when I first read some as a teenager in the 1960s), but I’ve been disappointed with others. This one is certainly worth reading.

Finally, I know that many Saint fans prefer the novella-length or full-length Saint stories, but for a bit of light entertainment that you can dip into, I personally prefer the short stories which feature in this book and in others such as “The Saint Intervenes”, “The Brighter Buccaneer”, “The Happy Highwayman”, “Saint Errant” and “The Saint in Europe”. These short stories tend to be even more fast-paced than the longer ones; they have the usual Charteris brand of humour; and some of them have genuinely surprising endings.

PS: This is a review of "The Saint to the Rescue". Due to some fault on Amazon it has also appeared in error as a review of "The Saint around the World". I've also noticed that a couple of other reviews here by other people have been put by Amazon on the wrong one of these two books.

Phil Webster.
(England)

Delagamand

Six stories, of moderate length:

• in "The Patient Playboy" (Bermuda) Simon tries to help a wife recover her kidnapped husband.

• "The Talented Husband" (England) finds the Saint helping dear old Claud Eustace Teal to solve his last case before he retires.

• in "The Reluctant Nudist" (France) Simon solves a particularly egregious murder.

• in "The Lovelorn Sheikh" (The Middle East) he helps an oil prospector who has had the misfortune to fall foul of a local potentate, producing a potentially drastic confrontation with Islamic law.

• "The Pluperfect Lady" (Malaya ) is perhaps the best story of the bunch, taking place during what the British euphemistically call The Malayan Emergency, i.e. a guerilla campaign (1948-60) fought to prevent a communist takeover. The characters and background are skilfully drawn, and there are interesting allusions to the Saint's early days in the country, even before the start of Meet the Tiger.

• "The Sporting Chance" (Vancouver), with its rather banal Cold War stereotypes, is the poorest story, despite the nostalgic reference to Norman Kent (of The Last Hero).

One of the nice things about all the Saint stories is that Charteris always seems intimately familiar with the different locations he writes about.

Am I alone in thinking that product placements seem to have found their way into the later ones — in this instance, for Dry Sack (sherry) and Peter Dawson (whisky)? The sentence construction and the repeated mention of the brand names both seem uncharacteristically clumsy.

3½ stars.

P.S. For a list of — and discussion of — all Charteris's Saint books, see my So You'd Like To... Guide.

Sharpbrew

This is the first Saint book I've read and after the first few stories I'd decided to start at the beginning of the series, but then I came to the racist/sexist story (I'm not sure if the sexist part was supposed to be taken at face value, but there's no way to excuse the racist parts), so as much as I liked letting a guy get away with killing his blackmailers and scamming scammers, I won't be reading any more unless I can be assured that story was an outlier.

Cheber

Lesllie Charteris did it again; he created an extremely entertaining compilation of stories featuring our favorite 20th Century Robin Hood, Simon Templar. I heartily endorse it!

Bludworm

This series of Saint stories seems to have been written during the popular TV series as one can easily imagine Roger Moore in the role of the Saint. All stories are quite interesting.

Six tales; set in San Francisco, Florida (twice), California (twice) and Mississippi.

As previously, although the plots have by now become rather formulaic, the details remain inventive.

3½ stars.

P.S. For a list of — and discussion of — all Charteris's Saint books, see my So You'd Like To... Guide.