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Loading... The Saint Closes the Case: The Saint. Book 2 (original 1930; edition 2014)by Leslie Charteris, John Telfer (Narrator)
Work InformationThe Last Hero by Leslie Charteris (1930)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Full length Saint novel, first published in 1930, in which the Saint deals with the tricky problem of a mad scientist with an invention that will give a large advantage in warfare to the nation that has sole control of it. The Saint may be an adventurer himself, and happy to put his own life on the line, but he is not inclined to approve of men dying in a war that has been created to line the pockets of industrialists selling to the war machine, and the stockbrokers trading in shares of those industries. It seems to him right and proper that the invention should be suppressed... It's an entertaining story that under the froth makes some sharp points about the manipulation of war for profit, although it's marred at one point by a slight hint that the manipulators have names one would associate with Jewish financiers. Well worth reading. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesThe Saint (3) Le Saint (72) Belongs to Publisher SeriesDoubleday Crime Club (1930.13) Vampiro (121) Zwarte Beertjes (3)
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. When the Saint and Patricia Holm stumble upon a government test of a weapon of mass destruction, they realize they've seen something that must be kept away from the wrong hands. But the Saint's nemesis Rayt Marius is already nearby.... There is only one way to stop Marius from using the weapon to start a war--kidnapping the scientist who built it. The plot comes to a climax on the banks of the River Thames, and not everyone will survive. 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 one of the 20th century's most prolific and popular authors. No library descriptions found. |
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