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The Saint – Leslie Charteris

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THE SAINT MEETS THE TIGER – Leslie Charteris

Digit UK R 603 1963 second in this format vg- but a very rare book Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

SAINT OVERBOARD – Leslie Charteris

Pan 1955 vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Alias the Saint by Leslie Charteris

Pan 1953 1st vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Alias the Saint by Leslie Charteris

Pan 1955 2nd vg- Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

The Ace of Knaves – Leslie Charteris

Pan 1954 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

The Saint in London – Leslie Charteris

PAN 208 1952 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

THE AVENGING SAINT Leslie Charteris

Pan 3rd vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

THE AVENGING SAINT – Leslie Charteris

Pan 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

THE SAINT VERSUS SCOTLAND YARD – Leslie Charteris

Pan 3rd 1950 vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

The Saint in New York – Leslie Charteris

Pan 1st vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

I discovered Leslie Charteris and the Saint before TV added him to the list of characters ruined by either the wrong actors, poor script writers or the sanitisation squad. Not that I have anything against Roger Moore, that series was ruined by the script writers and TV Policy. As happened to Lovejoy and one of the worse crimes of all Pascoe and Dalziel (I did think Hale and Pace did it better). Wrong actors ruined the early Rebus and for me one of the worse, Banks. The later Rebus was better and Rowan Atkinson as Margret was a touch of genius, not that at the time I had anything against Rupert Davies or Michael Gambon. Branagh isn’t a patch on Henrickson, but I suppose that is a fault of the script writers, we should leave Nordic Noir alone and just show the sub-titled versions.

Leslie Charteris – The Saint in Miami

Hodder and Stoughton hard back 1952 vg+ book in vg unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£7.50

Books that I am 99% sure I can Find

Books I think I have

If you are interested in any of the above titles and want more information please let me know and I can either answer your questions, send a PayPal invoice or make any other arrangement.

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Condition	Date	Edition	Letter	Number
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Bag 10					0
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Hodder	vg	1963	3rd		264
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Hodder	vg+	1957	1st		264
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Pan	vg-	1955	2nd		254
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Pan	vg+	1953	1st		254
Charteris Leslie	Alias the Saint	Hodder	vg	1962	2nd		264
Charteris Leslie	Call for the Saint	Pan	g+		4th	G	256
Charteris Leslie	Call for the Saint	Pan	vg	1958	2nd		386
Charteris Leslie	Call for the Saint	H&S	vg		1st	C	78
Charteris Leslie	Call for the Saint	Pan	vg+	1956	1st		386
Charteris Leslie	Call for the Saint	Hodder	vg+	1964			78
Charteris Leslie	Enter The Saint	BAG 06					0
Charteris Leslie	Enter the Saint	Hodder	vg	1957			43
Charteris Leslie	Enter the Saint	BAG 05					0
Charteris Leslie	Enter The Saint	BAG 22					0
Charteris Leslie	Enter the Saint	Pan	vg		2nd	G	615
Charteris Leslie	Enter the Saint	H&S	vg	1951	1st	C	43
Charteris Leslie	Featuring the Saint	H&S	vg+		1st	C	140
Charteris Leslie	Follow the Saint	Avon					533
Charteris Leslie	Follow the Saint	Pan	vg		1st	G	480
Charteris Leslie	Follow the Saint	H&S	vg+	1952	1st	C	79
Charteris Leslie	Return of the Saint	Coronet					731
Charteris Leslie	Saint Errant	Pan	vg+	1962	1st	G	522
Charteris Leslie	Saint Errant	H&S	vg		1st	C	209
Charteris Leslie	Saint Overboard	Hodder	vg				66
Charteris Leslie	Saint Overboard	H&S	vg		1st	C	66
Charteris Leslie	Saint Overboard	Pan	vg+	1955	1st		348
Charteris Leslie	Senor Saint	Pan	vg		1st	X	459
Charteris Leslie	Thanks to the Saint	Coronet					2174
Charteris Leslie	Thanks to the Saint	Hodder	vg		1st		474
Charteris Leslie	The Ace of Knaves	Pan	vg	1954	1st		276
Charteris Leslie	The Ace of Knaves	Hodder	vg	1962			326
Charteris Leslie	The Ace of Knaves	Pan	vg+	1956	2nd		276
Charteris Leslie	The Avenging Saint	Hodder	vg	1964			139
Charteris Leslie	The avenging Saint	H&S	vg+			C	139
Charteris Leslie	The Avenging Saint	Avon	vg-	1948	1st		147
Charteris Leslie	The avenging Saint	Pan	vg		3rd		103
Charteris Leslie	The Avenging Saint	Pan	vg	1968	6th	X	742
Charteris Leslie	The Brighter Buccaneer	Hodder	vg	1969	1st		243
Charteris Leslie	The Brighter Buccaneer	Pan	vg		1st		236
Charteris Leslie	The Brighter Buccaneer	Bag 24					0
Charteris Leslie	The Brighter Buccaneer	Hodder	vg+	1969			978
Charteris Leslie	The Happy Highwayman	H&S	vg		1st	C	131
Charteris Leslie	The Happy Highwayman	Hodder	vg	1973	1st		131
Charteris Leslie	The Happy Highwayman	Pan	vg	1958	1st	G	123
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Ace of Knaves	Hodder	vg				326
Charteris Leslie	The saint and Mr Teal	Pan	vg	1959	3rd	G	217
Charteris Leslie	The Saint and Mr Teal	H&S	vg		1st	C	80
Charteris Leslie	The Saint and Mr Teal	Hodder	vg+	1963			80
Charteris Leslie	The Saint and Mr Teal	Pan	vg	1957	1st		403
Charteris Leslie	The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace	Coronet					23252
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Around the World	Macfadden					260
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Around the World	Pan	vg-	1965	1st	X	376
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Around the World	Hodder	vg	1961	1st		473
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Bids Diamonds	Hodder	vg	1964			67
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Bids Diamonds	H&S	vg		1st	C	67
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Closes the Case	Hodder	vg-	1963	rep		69
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Closes the Case	H&S	vg+	1951	1st	C	69
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Closes the Case	Pan	vg		1st	G	358
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Goes On	Pan	vg		1st	G	642
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Goes on	Pan	vg	1967		X	398
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Goes West	H&S	vg+	1951	1st	C	42
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Goes West	Pan	vg-		2nd		317
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Goes West	Hodder	vg		1st		42
Charteris Leslie	The saint in Europe	Pan	f		3rd	X	469
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in Europe	Pan	vg		2nd	G	661
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in London	Hodder	vg				252
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in London	Pan	vg	1952	1st		208
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in Miami	H&S	vg		1st	C	6
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in Miami	Pan	vg	1955	1st		361
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in Miami	Hodder	vg		1st		1717
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in New York	Pan	vg+		2nd		66
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in New York	Pan	vg		4th		66
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in New York	Hodder	vg+	1964	1st		420
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in New York	H&S	vg		1st	C	184
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in the Sun	Hodder	vg	1966	1st		787
Charteris Leslie	The Saint in Trouble	Coronet					23250
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Intervenes	Hodder	vg	1956			244
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Intervenes	Hodder	vg		1st		224
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Meets His Match	Hodder	vg-	1960	1st		7
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Meets His Match	H&S	vg-	1953	2nd	C	7
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Meets the Tiger	Digit UK	vg-	1963	2nd	R	603
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on Guard	Hodder	vg	1963	4th		280
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on Guard	Hodder	vg+		4th		280
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on Guard	Pan	vg+	1951	1st		171
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on the Spanish Main	BAG 05					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on the Spanish Main	Pan	vg		6th	X	436
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on the Spanish Main	Pan	vg		1st	G	581
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on the Spannish Main	Hodder	vg	1960	1st		396
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on TV	Bag 10					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on TV	Pan			1st	A	2590
Charteris Leslie	The Saint on TV	Bag 18					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Plays With Fire	Pan	vg+	1959	1st	G	214
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Plays With Fire	Pan	vg-		3rd	G	214
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Plays with Fire	H&S	vg	1953	2nd	C	81
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Sees it Through	Hodder	vg		1st		68
Charteris Leslie	The Saint sees it Through	H&S	vg		1st	C	68
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Sees it Through	H&S	f	1951	1st		68
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Sees it Through	Pan	vg		1st	G	438
Charteris Leslie	The saint Steps In	H&S	vg		1st	C	132
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Steps In	Pan	f	1958	1st		438
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Steps In	Pan	vg-		2nd	G	196
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Steps In	Pan	vg	1958	1st		438
Charteris Leslie	The Saint to the Rescue	BAG 1					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint to the Rescue	Hodder	g+	1963	1st		606
Charteris Leslie	The Saint V Scotland Yard	Hodder	vg				1730
Charteris Leslie	The Saint V Scotland Yard	Hodder	vg		1st		251
Charteris Leslie	The Saint V Scotland Yard	Hodder	f	1964	2nd		251
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Versus Scotland Yard	BAG 05					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint Versus Scotland Yard	Pan	vg	1950	3rd		104
Charteris Leslie	The Saints Getaway	Bag 10					0
Charteris Leslie	The Saint’s Getaway	Pan	vg		1st	G	294
Charteris Leslie	The Saint’s Getaway	H&S	vg+	1951	2nd	C	8
Charteris Leslie	The White Rider	Ward Lock	vg-				16
Charteris Leslie	Trust The Saint	Hodder	vg		1st		625
Charteris Leslie	Trust the Saint	Coronet					2287
Charteris Leslie	Vendetta for the Saint	Hodder	vg		1st		2451

TRUE CRIME –

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San Francisco Murders

Bantam 1948 1st edition “A Rogue’s Gallery of True Crimes in America’s most colorful city” Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

CORPUS DELICTI – David Whitlaw

An enquiry into the various methods by which famous murderers have disposed of the bodies of their victims. Published by GEOFFREY BLES LONDON 1936 a first edition with no dj and stained (not blood) boards book otherwise vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£8.00

VRIME OF PASSION – Derick Goodman

ELek Books 1958 1st edition unclipped vg dj book has no stamps, labels or inscriptions near fine. Some of the named killers ; Marcel Hilaire-Miller, Michel Gelfand, Simone Soursas, Leone Bovier, Henri Demon, Denise Labbe, Jacques Algarron, Monique Lomard and others. 250 pages Ilustrated. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price
Webb Duncan	Crime is my Business	Panther	£10.00
Fabian	London After Dark	Panther	£10.00
Bridges Yseult	Saint with Red Hands	Arrow	£3.50
Furneaux Rupert	The Medical Murderer	Panther	£4.00
Furneaux Rupert	The Two Stranglers of Rillington Place	Panther	£15.00
Harrison Richard	Whitehall 1212	Arrow	£2.00

I do have a lot more titles but the publishes I have recently stock-checked (I have only recently included identifiers) don’t do a lot of True Crime.

Detective “Pulps”

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UNIVERSAL DETECTIVE – A Daring Publication February 1947 Vol 1 #2

Another Daring publication that I have failed to find on ‘tinterweb published and printed in Toonto in 1947. This copy has closed tears but otherwise vg

£20.00

All complete but not that sure where I have put them. I do like the type casting on the FBI Detective Cover, the clean cut Dick, the innocent Kid and the sly looking kidnapper complete with cig.

Short Stories 1949 June £ James Francis Dwyer – Berton E Cook – Gordon Keyne – H Bedford-Jones – Kerry O’Neil – Donald Barr Chidsey
F B I Detective Stories 0 Richard Deming – Larry Holden – Bruce Cassiday – Tedd Thomey
Detective Tales 1955 April W C Gault – Charles Beckman – Margaret Manners – Frank Scott York – Frank Gruber – Jules Archer – A E Grisman – Walt Sheldon
Black Mask 1947 October D L Champion – RC Dennis – Jack Karney – CM Kornbluth

Black Mask October 1947 British Edition

Contributions from L Champion -R C Dennis – Jack Karney – C M Kornbluth Through the post to UK Address £7.50

£7.50

Detective Tales April 1955 – British Edition

W C Gault – Charles Beckman – Margaret Manners – Frank Scott York – Frank Gruber – Jules Archer – A E Grisman – Walt Sheldon Through the post (UK)

£7.50

FBI Detective Stories 1950 (I think)

Richard Deming – Larry Holden – Bruce Cassiday – Tedd Thomey To UK address

£7.50

Short Stories June 1949

James Francis Dwyer – Berton E Cook – Gordon Keyne – H Bedford-Jones – Kerry O’Neil – Donald Barr Chidsey Through the post £7.50

£7.50

Detective Tales IV 10 – August 1956 (British edition)

Stories by GT Fleming-Roberts – Zeta Rothschild – Walter Kubilius – DL Champion – Charles Beckman – Ray Cummings Through Post (UK) £7.50

£7.50

Black Mask Detective April 1951 (British Edition)

Including complete book length novel by John D MacDonald “Tri-Kill Cutie”. I think a “technical” description of this copy would be complete but tatty. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

DICKS – Public & Private

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Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour – Frank L Packard

Hodder Y Stoughton 1936 (second printing) book vg dj vg- Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

I have 9020 (99% pre 1972) books catalogued and am happy to do a search if you are looking for something. The search below is restricted to this web site not the 9,000 titles I have catalogued. Please contact me for more extensive search.

A Mike Shane Mystery – When Dorinda Dances – by Brett Halliday

Dell D359 1960 vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£8.00

A Mike Shane Mystery – When Dorinda Dances – by Brett Halliday

Barker Dragon vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£8.00

Don’t Hang me Too High – J B O’Sullivan

Corgi 117 1955 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

A Private Killing – James Benet

Corgi 1951 1st vg “”Top Drawer Chiller.. Read it with the Lights on” Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£8.00

The Broken Doll – Jack Webb

Signer 1st Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

The Last Kill – Charlie Wells

Signet 1st Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.00

The Prices below are shop prices Please contact me if you require P&P inclusive Price.

John Creasey – a poor copy but I have listed it because the cover is rare- The Toff Takes Shares under JJ Marric Gideon’s Week and Gideon’s March both vg+ at £2.50

Bill S Ballinger – The Tooth and the Nail – a Signet 1st at £5.00

Peter Malloch – Tread Softly, Death Jay Suspense £4.00

Rex Stout – Out She Goes – Collins Crime Club or A White Circle Crime Club £5.00

Baynard Kendrick – Murder Made in Moscow (who would have thought it) – 122 in the Saint Mystery Library £5.00

HARD BACK – Fiction

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CASTLE MANDRAGORA by Mary Durham

This is the Thriller Book Club Edition published in 1951 a near fine book in a vg+ unclipped dj Ist UK edition, I think. Though the cover by Felix Kelly, and the title, suggest this is a “Gothic” novel Google tells me it is a crime novel, though with “strange” elements. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£25.00

Dark Fury – Helga Moray

Museum Press 1957 1st edition 3rd impression. vg book with vg unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.00

Rose and Grey – Louise Heilgers

1919 Herbert Jenkins hard back with a Dust Jacket Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£5.00

Unseen Harbour by Frank Laskier

“The Famous Novel of the Sea”Frank Laskier was born 1912 and lived his early years in the suburbs of Liverpool. As a teenager, Frank was an avid reader of Conrad and Masefield and had a romantic view of the “call of the sea”. One day he decided to lie about his age and run away from home aboard a ship destined for Australia. Laskier worked on many ships in the merchant navy and it was his experiences during the Second World War that brought him to the attention of the BBC. Frank was asked to broadcast a number of talks on his life at sea during that dangerous time. These talks were a great success. The positive feedback from his radio talks lead to Laskier turning to writing. This book, first published in 1947, was his final work. This novel that is a fictional account of the merchant ship MV Francis Hall as it sails from England across the Atlantic. The story is set just after the horrors of the Second World War, when the traumatic memories of the perils of the sea during that time are still fresh in the memories of the crew. Stronach, the bosun, was expecting the voyage to be a smooth passage, bit it soon becomes a test of his mettle as a man and sailor. This is an undated copy published by W H Allen vg/vg unclipped dj With UK postage £7.50

£7.50

Hands Off Bulldog Drummond – Gerard Fairlie following Sapper

Thriller Book Club Edition vg book in vg- dust jacket. Price includes UK Postage

£6.00

Unseen Harbour by Frank Laskier – Hands off Bulldog Drummond by Gerard Fairlie

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