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6 days ago · It reminded me of a quote from one of my favorite books – an old Saint adventure by Leslie Charteris called The Saint Closes the Case. In it, moments before sacrificing his life to save his friends, the character Norman writes a note to The Saint and explains to him: “Nothing is won without sacrifice.”.
Sep 25, 2024 · Nigel’s family lineage makes him, along with his contemporary thriller writer Jefferson Farjeon, one of the most certifiably “Jewish” of British Golden Age crime novelists (not the most ethnically and racially diverse group of people in history, to be sure, though there was also Leslie Charteris, yet another British thriller writer, who ...
Sep 13, 2024 · THE FIRST SAINT OMNIBUS by Leslie Charteris is a collection of Simon Templar’s 1930s adventures, or as one review puts it, “the GOOD ones.” Today, if anyone thinks of the Saint at all, usually they think of Roger Moore in syndicated reruns, or maybe the Val Kilmer movie.
1 day ago · This dashing, Bond-like crime-fighter created by Leslie Charteris often used unorthodox, even illegal means to unmask the guilty party. His dashing demeanor and style meant that he was a cinch to be a TV as well as a big-screen herol.
Sep 12, 2024 · Rog went on to far bigger things when he returned to the UK and was cast as Leslie Charteris’s anti-hero….”the infamous Simon Templar”, Cue music and halo!
3 days ago · 4 Min Read. Michael. An interesting book I got recently is The Weird Tales Boys by Stephen Jones. Published in 2023 by PS Publishing ‘s paperback imprint Drugstore Indian Press, it is available on Amazon. It’s part of the “Stephen Jones Masters of Horror Series” and is #15 in that series.
Sep 23, 2024 · Although series characters such as Victor Maxwell’s Sergeant Riordan and Edward Parrish Ware’s Tug Norton and Ranger Jack Calhoun had been around since the days of Flynn’s, after Erle Stanley Gardner introduced con-artist Lester Leith to readers in early 1929, Detective Fiction Weekly had a real winner on its hands.
