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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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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 show more hint that the manipulators have names one would associate with Jewish financiers. Well worth reading. show less
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 show more hint that the manipulators have names one would associate with Jewish financiers. Well worth reading. show less
My favorite Saint novel.
Indeholder "Tiggerkongen", "Det uundgåelige ord", "Kunstnere i svindlerfaget".
"Tiggerkongen" handler om at Helgenen og en muskelmand ved navn Hoppy Uniatz forhindrer en mand i at overfalde en tiggerske. Hun viser sig at være Monica Varing, som er en kendt og dygtig skuespillerinde. Hun har forklædt sig for at finde ud af hvad der dræbte hendes bekendt John Irvine, som var nødt til at tigge på gaden, da han var blevet blind og derfor havde mistet sit job. Helgenen tager overfaldsmanden Cleve Friend kaldet Junior til fange og forhører ham. Det giver næste trin på stigen, en mand ved navn Frankie Weiss og sporet fører videre til en Stephen Elliott. Undervejs bliver Junior skudt og dør og Monica bliver bortført, men fundet igen. show more Tiggerkongen viser sig at være en dronning af en slags; en kvabset grim kvinde ved navn mrs Laura Wingate. Hun fanger Helgenen, Monica og Hoppy, men Hoppy har en vane med at spytte med hagl og rammer hende i øjet, så situationen skifter pludseligt og Helgenen og hans venner redder dagen.
"Det uundgåelige ord" handler om ordet COP. En mand, Edward Oakridge, er blevet myrdet i en forsøgsstation, hvor han arbejdede for forsvaret under lederen professor Walter Rand, og med kollegaen dr. Conrad Soren. Oakridge var egentlig russer og hed Dmitri Okoloff. Inden han døde nåede han at skrive COP med blod og Helgenen forbinder hurtigt russisk og COP til at give SOR...., så Conrad Soren bliver grebet og man finder hurtigt beviser mod ham.
"Kunstnere i svindlerfaget" handler om en bondefanger, mr. Eade, der sammen med sin kone, har fuppet en lidt begærlig mrs Sophie Yarmouth for 10.000 dollars. Helgenen tager affære sammen med Yarmouth's nevø, Howard Mayne.
Ret forudsigelige, men mildt underholdende bagateller, der egentlig har holdt sig forbløffende godt. show less
"Tiggerkongen" handler om at Helgenen og en muskelmand ved navn Hoppy Uniatz forhindrer en mand i at overfalde en tiggerske. Hun viser sig at være Monica Varing, som er en kendt og dygtig skuespillerinde. Hun har forklædt sig for at finde ud af hvad der dræbte hendes bekendt John Irvine, som var nødt til at tigge på gaden, da han var blevet blind og derfor havde mistet sit job. Helgenen tager overfaldsmanden Cleve Friend kaldet Junior til fange og forhører ham. Det giver næste trin på stigen, en mand ved navn Frankie Weiss og sporet fører videre til en Stephen Elliott. Undervejs bliver Junior skudt og dør og Monica bliver bortført, men fundet igen. show more Tiggerkongen viser sig at være en dronning af en slags; en kvabset grim kvinde ved navn mrs Laura Wingate. Hun fanger Helgenen, Monica og Hoppy, men Hoppy har en vane med at spytte med hagl og rammer hende i øjet, så situationen skifter pludseligt og Helgenen og hans venner redder dagen.
"Det uundgåelige ord" handler om ordet COP. En mand, Edward Oakridge, er blevet myrdet i en forsøgsstation, hvor han arbejdede for forsvaret under lederen professor Walter Rand, og med kollegaen dr. Conrad Soren. Oakridge var egentlig russer og hed Dmitri Okoloff. Inden han døde nåede han at skrive COP med blod og Helgenen forbinder hurtigt russisk og COP til at give SOR...., så Conrad Soren bliver grebet og man finder hurtigt beviser mod ham.
"Kunstnere i svindlerfaget" handler om en bondefanger, mr. Eade, der sammen med sin kone, har fuppet en lidt begærlig mrs Sophie Yarmouth for 10.000 dollars. Helgenen tager affære sammen med Yarmouth's nevø, Howard Mayne.
Ret forudsigelige, men mildt underholdende bagateller, der egentlig har holdt sig forbløffende godt. show less
Jul 27, 2012 (Edited)Danish
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- Canonical title
- The Last Hero
- Original title
- The Last Hero
- Alternate titles
- The Saint and the Last Hero; The Saint Closes The Case; Sudden Death; The Creeping Death
- Original publication date
- 1930
- People/Characters
- Roger Conway; Patricia Holm; Norman Kent; Rayt Marius; Simon Templar (the Saint)
- Important places
- England, UK
- First words
- It is said that in these hectic days no item of news is capable of holding the interest of the public for more than a week; therefore journalists and news editors age swiftly, and become prematurely bald and bad-tempered, Tat... (show all)cho and Kruschen availing them naught.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It seemed as if the shadows of the peaceful evening outside were the foreshadowings of a great peace over all the world.
- Original language*
- Englisch
- Disambiguation notice
- THE LAST HERO has also been published as THE SAINT CLOSES THE CASE.
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