Leslie Charteris - The Saint (epub-mobi)

The Saint series Leslie Charteris (#1-#34)

1. The Saint Meets the Tiger
In a remote coastal village in England, Templar tracks a ruthless smuggler, and meets his future wife. It's one of those cases in which the villain must be one of a limited and unlikely group of suspects, and the solution is nicely handled.

2. Enter the Saint
Simon Templar tangles with the notorious “Snake” Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels, and busts a drug-smuggling racket. He may not always stay on the right side of the law, but with his swashbuckling charm and Robin Hood morality, he is clearly on the side of the angels.

3. The Saint Closes the Case
When Simon and Patricia stumble upon a government scientist testing a weapon of mass destruction, the Saint decides to put a stop to it. But when the Saint’s archnemesis, Rayt Marius, turns up, the Saint’s plans go astray, leading one of his friends to make the ultimate sacrifice.

4. The Avenging Saint
For weeks the Saint had been hunting two men across Europe...and one of them at least he had sworn to kill. Face-to-face with his quarry in London, Simon Templar takes his own side in a nightmare game of international conspiracy, rescues a beautiful pawn, checkmates a fiendish plot...and saves his king.

5. Featuring the Saint
Whether battling an adrenaline junkie who says he can cheat death, starting a revolution in a Central American country, or putting a drug smuggler and human trafficker out of business, the Saint seems to be having fun.

6. Alias the Saint
In these three classic tales, the Saint takes an office job with a twist, tackles the ultimate locked-room mystery, and stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things are happening.

7. The Saint Meets his Match
For many years the Saint was at war equally with criminals and the law. That led to trouble, and one day the Saint finally made his peace with the law and joined Scotland Yard. The next day he met the rather lovely leader of a gang and joined her in a venture so daring that before it was accomplished, the Saint found himself facing the wrong end of a gun belonging to a commissioner at Scotland Yard.

8. The Saint versus Scotland Yard
Three more classic tales in which the Saint finally pays his tax bill...only to discover that the taxman has a rather unhealthy hobby for some. Then a good deed leads the Saint to discover a plot to undermine the Italian economy, and his plans to retire are interrupted when a couple of homicidal diamond smugglers object to his interference in their plans.

9. The Saint's Getaway
The Saint is on holiday in Austria and promising to behave himself, but when he sees a man being attacked by thugs, he feels obliged to intervene. The stranger seems remarkably ungrateful, and soon it’s clear why, for he is a thief with a prize that men will kill for. Soon the Saint is in a race against time, the police, and his old enemy Prince Rudolf to keep hold of the loot.

10. The Saint and Mr. Teal
Three more adventures for the Saint: in Paris, a dying man claims his brother can make gold; in London, an American gangster discovers there are some things the Saint just won’t tolerate; and in the Scilly Isles, drug smuggling, drugged beer, and a damsel in distress make a most unusual holiday for the Saint.

11. The Brighter Buccaneer
“The art of crime,” said Simon Templar, “is to be versatile,” and in these fifteen tales the Saint is as good as his word. Whilst dispensing his own brand of justice to a rich assortment of villains, he kisses a policewoman, buys a racehorse, recovers a stolen treaty, and plans “The Perfect Crime.”

12. The Saint in London
Three more buccaneering adventures: When Rayt Marius bequeaths a book to Simon, it lands him in a whole lot of trouble, but it could generate a lot of money if he can survive to tell the tale. Then Simon battles the police, a reclusive millionaire, and a wild beast, and, in the final adventure, he gets rather annoyed to discover someone is stealing his identity and committing crimes in his name…

13. The Saint Intervenes
Crooked financiers, bookies, fake inventors, dodgy bankers, porn dealers, unethical businessmen, murderers, thieves, and liars—all will come to regret the day they came to the attention of the Saint.

14. The Saint Goes On
Three classic adventures for the Saint in which he tackles a criminal who kills people before they can reveal his identity, tracks down a man who died a year ago, and goes to a sleepy seaside pub disturbed by mysterious underground rumblings. One thing’s for sure—despite death threats, gun battles, and kidnapping, the Saint will go on…

15. The Saint In New York
The New York underworld in the 1930s was no place for an amateur. The gangsters tended to shoot first and ask questions later, and half the police were crooked whilst the other half were powerless against a corrupt judiciary. Luckily, Simon Templar is no amateur. In the space of forty-eight hours, he cleans up corruption in New York and brings the mob and its mysterious leader to justice. Another weekend’s work—for the Saint.

16. Saint Overboard
Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones’s locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?

17. The Saint in Action
Murder, forgery, theft, and blackmail in aid of a civil war—just an amusing interlude for the Saint.

18. The Saint Bids Diamonds
In Tenerife, the Saint discovers three thugs beating up an old man and a young, attractive woman, so he and Hoppy Uniatz have to intervene. But when the old man reveals himself to be a diamond cutter who’s just a lost a lottery ticket worth $2 million, life suddenly gets a lot more interesting for the Saint.

19. The Saint Plays with Fire
When the Saint and Patricia spot a country house on fire, they rush to help but are too late for one man, who is trapped inside. The dead man had been locked in a room, so Simon concludes there’s a murder to answer for, despite the coroner’s differing opinion. When the Saint investigates further, he gets caught up with generals, financiers, and an assassination plot designed to start a war.

20. Follow the Saint
Three more classic adventures for the Saint in which he discovers some truly miraculous tea, agrees to meet a woman with some information on a major swindle—but finds her dead—and, in the last story, decides to take the self-appointed guardian of the nation’s morality down a peg or two, only to end up in the aftermath of a bank robbery…

21. The Happy Highwayman
Nine classic short stories in which the Saint tackles a clever detective who isn’t actually all that smart, a well-meaning mayor, a French count, a man who likes ants, and a producer who, much to the Saint’s surprise, turns out to be quite smart. Whether it’s gala dinners or poker competitions, the Saint finds adventures to enjoy…

22. The Saint in Miami
The Saint and Patricia are invited to stay with friends in Miami, but when they arrive, the friends are nowhere to be seen. After a tanker explodes off the coast and a dead sailor gets washed up on shore, the Saint suspects a link between all three, plus millionaire yachtsman Randolph March, who’s staying nearby. Soon the Saint discovers a Nazi ring operating out of Florida.

23. The Saint Goes West
When the Saint visits Arizona, he battles a Nazi scientist whose interest in ranching is prompted by the mercury deposits underneath the ranch. In Palm Springs, an alcoholic millionaire hires him after a series of near-fatal accidents. And real danger ensues in Hollywood when an enterprising producer decides the Saint should be a movie star—but then the producer turns up dead.

24. The Saint Steps In
With the Second World War underway, the Saint has turned respectable, working for a secret branch of the government to take on a case nobody else can touch. In Washington, a young woman asks for his help—her father, a noted scientist, has created a new form of synthetic rubber, but now he has disappeared and she is under threat.

25. The Saint on Guard
More war-time adventures for the Saint: When a shipment of iridium is stolen, the Saint plots to recover the goods, only to be framed for the murder of one of his prime leads. Then in Texas, the Saint’s attempts to track down a man who’s been sabotaging weapons factories is frustrated when his main suspect turns up burnt to a crisp…

26. The Saint Sees it Through
When the Saint goes for a drink in a New York nightclub—Cookie’s Cellar—he discovers the rather lovely nightclub singer Avalon Dexter; however, he soon meets the less lovely Cookie herself.

27. Call for the Saint
With the invaluable assistance of Hoppy Uniatz and the help of a beautiful actress, the Saint tracks down the King of the Beggars, instigator of an ugly racket designed to exploit the beggars of the city. And then he must turn to fight a ruthless crook who will stop at nothing—including murder—to make “The Masked Angel” a champion boxer.

28. Saint Errant
Nine classic adventures for the Saint in which he finds out whether the female of the species really is more deadly than the male.

29. The Saint in Europe
In Paris the Saint falls upon a curious murder; in Amsterdam, he hoists a crook with his own petard; by the Rhine, he deals out justice to a swindler; in the Tyrol, he surprises a rich American; at Lucerne, he is involved in murder; in Juan-les-Pins, he loses an opportunity; and in Rome, he falls prey to terrorists.

30. The Saint on the Spanish Main
The Saint is a traditionalist. He knows what a good pirate story needs: gold, hidden treasure, smugglers, dastardly villains, and damsels in distress. From Bimini to Nassau, via Jamaica and Haiti, the Saint travels the Caribbean, interrupting his holidays to settle disputes, solve murders, overthrow governments, and hunt for treasure.

31. The Saint Around the World
In these six stories, Simon Templar’s uncanny ability to find an adventure wherever he goes leads him into some very strange affairs. In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives tend not to last long. He deals with a murder in a nudist colony, hunts for oil, matches wits with a woman as ruthless as he is, and goes fishing for a drug-smuggling ring.

32. Thanks to the Saint
In these nine tales, Simon has a chance to show off his skills: he matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a hanging, gets the better of a patent-pill millionaire, solves a locked-room murder in a secret laboratory, goes fishing, turns journalist, and ends the book with a bang.

33. Señor Saint
Mexico, Cuba, and Panama—that’s where the modern-day Robin Hood engages in somewhat revolutionary activities with ice-cold blondes, bedroom-eyed redheads, con men, and knife men, not to mention stealing pearls from a blind man.

34. The Saint to the Rescue
Six more classic adventures: there’s a murky tale of blackmail at a candy convention; a chance to turn the tables on an unscrupulous real-estate broker; a confidence trickster with a keen grasp of math; a scientific invention that is too good to be true; some respectable ladies with a secret to be kept; and a criminal lawyer who’s perhaps too close to the criminals he represents.