Vendetta for the Saint

Charteris, Leslie

ISBN 10: 0340024518 / ISBN 13: 9780340024515

Published by Coronet Books, London, 1967

About this Item

Some edge and shelf wear, light reading creases, Spanish price sticker to front endpaper, paper toned with some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First paperback printing Hodder 2451. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo uncredited. ; The Saint Series; Vol. 37; 192 pages; Simon Templar pits his wits against the Mafia. This was the first Saint novel to be ghost written with Charteris acting as story editor, the actual author in fact being Harry Harrison, the noted science fiction writer. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 28274

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vendetta for the Saint

Publisher: Coronet Books, London

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Edition: Reprint; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered. Soon the Robin Hood of modern crime is pitted against the archevil, centuries-old traditions of the Mafia....

About the Author:

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 twentieth-century's most prolific and popular authors.

John Telfer is best known for playing the character of Willy Pettit in five seasons of "Bergerac". He has appeared many times in various television dramas, while his parallel theatrical career has involved him in leading roles at the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre, the Old Vic in London, and many regional theaters. He has made hundreds of radio broadcasts, and he plays the part of Alan, the vicar, in "The Archers".