"Saint Errant" 1955 CHARTERIS, Leslie
$50
CHARTERIS, Leslie
[190] pp.
Hodder and Stoughton
1955
7" x 4 3/4"
Cover artwork by Jarvis
*tape over head and heel of spine/ FFEP cut-out*
Saint Errant is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1948 by The Crime Club in the United States and in 1949 by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom. This was the 28th book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and the first Saint short story collection since 1939's The Happy Highwayman. Several of the stories were based upon the then-current Saint comic strip, while the story "Judith" was first published in 1934 (the version featured in this book has been revised and updated, as have several other stories which were originally published in the 1930s).
Saint Errant was the first of several themed story collections that Charteris would publish over the next decade, the author having decided following Call for the Saint to focus on the short story format for Templar's adventures, rather than novels and novellas. In the case of Saint Errant, each story focuses on a different female acquaintance of Templar's.