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In these three stories set in the American west, the Saint finds ways to get into his usual trouble. He travels to Arizona in pursuit of a Nazi scientist who wants to take over a ranch to mine the mercury underneath, goes to Palm Springs and gets hired as the bodyguard to an alcoholic millionaire, and almost becomes a movie star in Hollywood. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for show more publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life, becoming one of the 20th century's most prolific and popular authors. show lessTags
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Zwarte Beertjes (483)
Doubleday Crime Club (1942.11)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- De Saint trekt westwaarts
- Original title
- The Saint goes West
- Original publication date
- 1942
- People/Characters
- Simon Templar (the Saint); Dr Ludwig Julius; Max Valmon; Jean Morland; Freddie Pellman; Byron Ufferlitz (show all 9); Orlando Flane; April Quest; Peggy Warden
- Important places
- Arizona, USA; Palm Springs, California, USA; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- First words
- SIMON TEMPLAR checked the fit of the specially built silencer on his .357 Magnum for the last time, and settled more snugly into the screen of tumbled rocks from which he was watching the road below.
- Quotations
- (The morning after the night before, a particularly dissipated young man arises.) ...Freddie Pellman made his entrance. Like the Saint, he wore swimming trunks and a perfunctory terry-cloth robe. But the exposed portions of h... (show all)im were not built to stand the comparison. He had pale blotchy skin and the flesh under it looked spongy, as if it had softened up with inward fermentation. Which was not improbable.
- Original language*
- English
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- ISBNs
- 12
- UPCs
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- ASINs
- 22
