Leslie Charteris

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    82 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1934
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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The Saint

Enter the Saint ()
The Affair of Hogsbotham ()
The Appalling Politician ()
The Death Penalty ()
The High Fence ()
The Man Who Was Clever ()
The Million Pound Day ()
The Saint Around the World ()
The Simon Templar Foundation ()
The Sleepless Knight ()
The Story of a Dead Man ()
The Unblemished Bootlegger ()
The Unfortunate Financier ()
The Unlicensed Victuallers ()
The Wonderful War ()
The Saint and the People Importers (1973)
The Saint in Miami (1973)
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace (1976)
The Saint Vs. Scotland Yard (1977)
Saint Abroad (1979)
Saint and the Templar Treasure (1979)
Vendetta for the Saint (1979)
Alias the Saint (Jan-1980)
The Saint's Getaway (Jan-1980)
Featuring the Saint (Feb-1980)
The Saint to the Rescue (Apr-1980)
The Saint Steps In (May-1980)
The Saint in Action (Aug-1980)
Count on the Saint (Sep-1980)
The Saint Meets the Tiger (Sep-1980)
Saint Intervenes (Jan-1981)
The Saint on the Spanish Main (Jan-1981)
The Saint and the Sizzling Saboteur (Apr-1981)
Call for the Saint (May-1981)
The Saint and the Happy Highwayman (Jun-1981)
Saint and the Brighter Buccaneer (Aug-1981)
The Saint in New York (Sep-1981)
The Saint in Europe (Oct-1981)
Thanks to the Saint (Jan-1982)
Angels of Doom (Feb-1982)
The Saint: The Last Hero (Feb-1982)
The Saint Goes on (Apr-1982)
The Fantastic Saint (Sep-1982)
The Saint Goes West (Nov-1982)
Saint on Guard (Dec-1982)
The Saint Sees It Through (Dec-1982)
The Saint : five complete novels (Feb-1983)
Salvage for the Saint (Oct-1983)
Saint Overboard (Jun-1984)
The Avenging Saint (Jun-1984)
Follow the Saint (Jul-1989)
Knight Templar (Aug-1989)
The Saint and Mr. Teal (Jun-1995)
Saint's Sporting Chance (Nov-1996)
The Last Hero (Aug-1997)
Saint Errant (Jul-1999)

Book List in Order: 82 titles

  • The Mystery of the Child's Toy

    in Mysterious Pleasures

    'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...

  • The Holy Terror

  • The Saint and the People Importers

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    When a waiter at an Indian restaurant is crucified, and when a customer of that restaurant happens to be the infamous Simon Templar, it spells trouble for one of the more unusual import-export businesses that you’ve ever heard of.

    Les...

  • The Saint in Miami

    The Saint

    The Saint and Patricia are invited to stay with friends in Miami, but when they arrive, the friends are nowhere to be seen. After a tanker explodes off the coast and a dead sailor gets washed up on shore, the Saint suspects a link between all three, ...

  • The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace

    The Saint

    On the eve of World War II, the Saint is in Vienna, where his attentions are divided between a sensuous countess and some legendary diamonds - both of which he is trying to keep out of Nazi hands.

    Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and ...

  • The Saint Vs. Scotland Yard

    The Saint

    Simon Templar picks up the thread of his long-standing battle with Claude Augustus Teal, the gum-chewing Chief Inspector of the C. I. D. Why Inspector Teal objects to the way the Saint takes things into his own hands, making there by a large profi...

  • Saint Abroad

    The Saint

    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 m...

  • Saint and the Templar Treasure

    The Saint

    Simon Templar is driving leisurely though the French countryside when he picks up a couple of hitch-hikers 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 Sain...

  • Vendetta for the Saint

    The Saint

    The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The ...



  • Alias the Saint

    The Saint

    Three more classic tales in which the Saint takes an office job with a twist, tackles the ultimate locked-room mystery and stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things are happening.…...

  • The Saint's Getaway

    The Saint

    The Saint is back -- 50 audiobooks are now available starring the debonair classic crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own br...

  • Featuring the Saint

    The Saint

    Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    These three stories find the Saint flushing out...

  • The Saint to the Rescue

    The Saint

    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 goo...

  • The Saint Steps In

    The Saint

    The Saint is in Washington, DC, when a young woman asks for his help. Her father, a noted scientist, has invented a new form of synthetic rubber. But he has disappeared, and she is under threat. She turns to Simon Templar, who soon finds himself i...

  • The Saint in Action

    The Saint

    The Saint never asks for adventures, but they will keep happening to him, and these three classic stories force him into action once more. In The Spanish Civil War , a 10 debt leads to a dead body, a large quantity of bearers' bonds, and another tus...

  • Count on the Saint

    The Saint

    Two more adventures for the Saint: in “The Pastor’s Problem” Simon tries to help his penniless friend Father Bernardo by “stealing” an invaluable silver chalice, only to discover some real crooks. And in “The Unsaintly Santa” even Ca...

  • The Saint Meets the Tiger

    The Saint

  • Saint Intervenes

    The Saint

    Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    In this collection of short stories, the Saint i...

  • The Saint on the Spanish Main

    The Saint

    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 ...



  • The Saint and the Sizzling Saboteur

    The Saint

  • Call for the Saint

    The Saint

    The Saint is back. Fifty books are now available starring the debonair classic-crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable.

    With the invaluable assistance of Hoppy Uniatz and the help of a bea...

  • The Saint and the Happy Highwayman

    The Saint

  • Saint and the Brighter Buccaneer

    The Saint

    “The art of crime,” said Simon Templar, “is to be versatile,” and in these fifteen tales the Saint is as good as his word. Whilst dispensing his own brand of justice to a rich assortment of villains, he kisses a policewoman, buys a raceho...

  • The Saint in New York

    The Saint

    Simon Templar is the Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    In Prohibition-era New York, criminals rule the cit...

  • The Saint in Europe

    The Saint

    Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him.

    In seven adventures ‘round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels, kidnappers, and swindlers galore. He wa...

  • Thanks to the Saint

    The Saint

    The Saint has become better known—but that just increases the number of people who seek out his help. In these nine short stories, Simon has a chance to show off his skills: he matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a han...

  • Angels of Doom

    The Saint

    Simon Templar is The Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    Simon Templar finds himself on the side of the righ...

  • The Saint: The Last Hero

    The Saint

  • The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal

    A novelette of three stories about 'The Saint' Simon Templar, in the final battle of wits between Simon and Rayt Marius. the Saint fights a life-and-death fight with ungodly evildoers on one hand, and tweaks the nose of poor Inspector Teal, unusual a...



  • The Saint Goes on

    The Saint

    "

    Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    In these three classic stories, the Saint inves...

  • Prelude for War

  • The Fantastic Saint

    The Saint

  • The Saint Goes West

    The Saint

    Includes Arizona; Hollywood; Palm Springs When the Saint visits Arizona, he battles a Nazi scientist whose interest in ranching is prompted by the mercury deposits underneath the ranch. In Palm Springs, an alcoholic millionaire hires him after a seri...

  • Saint on Guard

    The Saint

    More war-time adventures for the Saint: When a shipment of iridium is stolen, the Saint plots to recover the goods, only to be framed for the murder of one of his prime leads. Then in Texas, the Saint’s attempts to track down a man who’s been ...

  • The Saint Sees It Through

    The Saint

    When the Saint goes for a drink in a New York nightclub -- Cookie’s Cellar -- he discovers the rather lovely nightclub singer Avalon Dexter; however, he soon meets the less lovely Cookie herself.

    ...

  • The Saint : five complete novels

    The Saint

  • Salvage for the Saint

    The Saint

    Based on a two-part episode of Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy, the Saint takes part in a powerboat race only for his main competitor''s boat to blow up midrace. As Simon comforts the man''s widow, he discovers some rather unusual behavio...

  • Getaway

  • The Avenging Saint

    The Saint

    For weeks the Saint had been hunting two men across Europe...and one of them at least he had sworn to kill. Face-to-face with his quarry in London, Simon Templar takes his own side in a nightmare game of international conspiracy, rescues a beautif...



  • Saint Overboard

    The Saint

    Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones’s locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?

    ...

  • Follow the Saint

    The Saint

    In these three stories, everyone's favourite criminal follows his nose and finds yet more trouble.

    In "The Miracle Tea Party," an attack on Inspector Teal leads Simon to discover a packet of Miracle Tea with truly miraculous properties. In "The...

  • Knight Templar

    The Saint

  • Daredevil

  • The Saint and Mr. Teal

    The Saint

    Includes Death Penalty; Gold Standard; Man from St. Louis In London, a small-time American criminal sets up a violent gang, only to learn that there are certain things the Saint will not put up with. And in the Scilly Isles, drug-smuggling, drugged b...

  • Saint's Sporting Chance

    The Saint

  • The Last Hero

    The Saint

    Simon Templar and his lady Patricia stumble upon a demonstration of a new weapon of mass destruction. The Saint is horrified and determines to stop this weapon. The world is still getting over the Great War and the many lives sacrificed to the then n...

  • Saint Errant

    The Saint

    The female of the species is supposed to be deadlier than the male.... Simon Templar is about to find out if that's true.

    In this collection of stories, the Saint encounters nine fascinating women. Whether they need help, to be avenged, or ...

  • The Best of the "Saint"

    '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 Bids Diamonds

    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 mill...



  • The Saint Closes the Case

    When Simon and Patricia stumble upon a government scientist testing a weapon of mass destruction, the Saint decides to put a stop to it. But when the Saint’s archnemesis, Rayt Marius, turns up, the Saint’s plans go astray, leading one of his frie...

  • The Saint in London

    Three more buccaneering adventures: When Rayt Marius bequeaths a book to Simon, it lands him in a whole lot of trouble, but it could generate a lot of money if he can survive to tell the tale. Then Simon battles the police, a reclusive millionaire, a...

  • 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 b...

  • The Saint Plays with Fire

    When the Saint and Patricia spot a country house on fire, they rush to help but are too late for one man, who is trapped inside. The dead man had been locked in a room, so Simon concludes there’s a murder to answer for, despite the coroner’s diff...

  • The Saint Returns

    When the Saint goes fishing, he catches an unusual specimen in the shape of a young lady claiming to be Adolf Hitler’s daughter. And when the Ungodly also arrive on the scene, it seems clear the fish will just have to wait… ...

  • Trust the Saint

    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 th...

  • The Brighter Buccaneer

    “The art of crime,” said Simon Templar, “is to be versatile,” and in these fifteen tales the Saint is as good as his word. Whilst dispensing his own brand of justice to a rich assortment of villains, he kisses a policewoman, buys a racehorse,...

  • Catch the Saint

    On an errand of mercy for an elderly neighbor, 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’...

  • The Happy Highwayman

    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....

  • The Saint and the Fiction Makers

    The Saint is hired to protect Amos Klein, a secretive author who writes a popular and lucrative series of spy novels. Soon the Saint and Amos Klein are kidnapped by members of SWORD, the evil organization from Klein’s novels. It seem the world crea...

  • The Saint in Pursuit

    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 N...

  • The Saint in the Sun

    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 i...

  • The Saint in Trouble

    Two adventures based on episodes from Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy: In “The Imprudent Professor” the Saint is summoned by pretty Emma Maclett to prevent the kidnapping of her father, an eminent scientist with world-changing ideas on t...

  • The Saint Meets His Match

    Simon Templar is The Saint daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. Simon Templar finds himself on the side of the righteous f...

  • The Saint Versus Scotland Yard

    Simon Templar is the Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. In these three stories, the Saint finds himself embroil...

  • Send for the Saint

    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 doppelg...

  • Senor Saint

    Simon Templar is at his cavalier best in this collection of South American adventures. In Mexico he meets an ice-cool blonde with her own Saintly ideas and joins in the fun. In Baja, California, he gets caught up in a strange story of two women and a...

  • Meet the Tiger

    Dashing adventurer Simon Templar, known as The Saint, plunges into danger when he arrives in the sleepy village of Baycombe. Mysterious attacks and shocking secrets swirl around the enigmatic Pill Box where he makes his home. With his trusted compani...

  • Enter the Saint

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Simon Templar tangles with the notorious 'Snake' Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels and busts a drug-smuggling racket. He may not always stay on the right side of the law, but with his swashbuckling charm and Robin Hood morality, he is cle...

  • The Saint Around the World

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    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 ten...

  • The Affair of Hogsbotham

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Appalling Politician

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Death Penalty

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The High Fence

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Man Who Was Clever

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Million Pound Day

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Simon Templar Foundation

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Sleepless Knight

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Story of a Dead Man

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Unblemished Bootlegger

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Unfortunate Financier

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Unlicensed Victuallers

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

  • The Wonderful War

    in The First Saint Omnibus
    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy
    The Saint

    Foreword by Leslie Charteris; The Man Who Was Clever (from Enter the Saint); The Wonderful War (from Wanted for Murder); The Story of a Dead Man (from Wanted for Murder); The Unblemished Bootlegger (from The Brighter Buccaneer); The Appaling Politici...

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Leslie Charteris has published 82 books.

Leslie Charteris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Meet the Tiger, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Leslie Charteris, The Mystery of the Child's Toy, was published in January 1934.

Yes. Leslie Charteris has 1 series.
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