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The Saint And The Templar Treasure
''The Saint and the Templar Treasure'' is the title of a 1979 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The novel is written by Graham Weaver and Donne Avenell, but per the custom at this time, the author credit on the cover goes to Leslie Charteris, who created the Saint in 1928, and who served in an editorial capacity. The book was first published in the United States by The Crime Club, and was followed thereafter by a United Kingdom edition from Hodder and Stoughton. The US edition adjusts the cover credit to read ''Leslie Charteris' The Saint and the Templar Treasure''. Following publication of this book, Charteris submitted for publication a novel entitled ''The Saint's Lady'' written by a Saint fan named Joy Martin. This novel was not published, so the next book to appear was ''Count on the Saint''. Plot summary 1979 British novels Simon Templar books The Crime Club books {{1970s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Weaver
Graham or Graeme may refer to: People * Graham (given name), an English-language given name * Graham (surname), an English-language surname * Graeme (surname), an English-language surname * Graham (musician) (born 1979), Burmese singer * Clan Graham, a Scottish clan *George Graham (clockmaker), an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist * Graham baronets Fictional characters * Graham Aker, in the anime ''Gundam 00'' * Project Graham, what a human would look like to survive a car crash * Graham, the head of the royal in bridge incidents ''King's Quest'' series of video games Places Canada * Graham, Sudbury District, Ontario * Graham Island, part of the Charlotte Island group in British Columbia * Graham Island (Nunavut), Arctic island in Nunavut United States * Graham, Alabama * Graham, Arizona * Graham, Florida * Graham, Georgia * Graham, Kentucky * Graham, Missouri * Graham, North Carolina * Graham, Oklahoma * Graham, Texas * Graham, Washington Elsewhere * Graham Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donne Avenell
Donne may refer to: People *Alfred François Donné (1801–1878), French bacteriologist and doctor *Daniel Donne (died 1617), English jurist *Elena Delle Donne (born 1989), American basketball player *Gabriel Donne (died 1558), English monk * Gaven Donne (1914–2010), New Zealand-born judge * George Donne (1605–1639), English soldier and writer, son of John Donne *John Donne (1572–1631), English poet and cleric in the Church of England *John Donne the Younger (1604–1662), English clergyman and writer, son of John Donne *Sir John Donne (c. 1420s – 1503), Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier * Maria Dalle Donne (1778–1842), Italian physician * Mark Donne, London-based film-maker and writer *Raffaele Delle Donne (born 1967 or 1968), Italian-Canadian Mafia associate and informant * Robert Donne (born 1967), American musician and composer * Thomas Donne (1860–1945), New Zealand civil servant *William Bodham Donne (1807–1882), English journalist *William Donne (cricketer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris (; born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter."Biography of Leslie Charteris." ''saint.org''. Retrieved 4 September 2016. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of his hero Simon Templar, alias " The Saint". Early life Charteris was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, in Singapore. His mother, Lydia Florence Bowyer, was English. His father, Dr S. C. Yin ( Yin Suat Chuan, 1877–1958), was a Chi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Templar
The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a List of works by Leslie Charteris, series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in 1997. The character has also been portrayed in the franchise The Saint (franchise), ''The Saint'', which includes motion pictures, radio dramas, comic strips, comic books, and three television series. Overview Simon Templar Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like figure known as the Saint—from his initials, per ''The Saint Meets the Tiger'', and the reader is told that he was given the nickname at the age of nineteen. In addition, per ''Knight Templar (The Saint), Knight Templar'' : Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as "Sebastian Tombs" or "Sugarman Treacle". Blessed with boyish humour, he makes hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Novel
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural mystery in which the solution does not have to be logical and even in which there is no crime involved. This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, whose titles such as ''Dime Mys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crime Club
''The Crime Club'' was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series, and a 1937-1939 film series. Literature Many classic and popular works of detective and mystery fiction had their first U.S. editions published via the Crime Club, including all 50 books of The Saint by Leslie Charteris (1928-1983). The imprint also published first editions in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series. The Crime Club began life in 1928 with the publication of ''The Desert Moon Mystery'' by Kay Cleaver Strahan, and ceased publication in 1991. In the intervening 63 years, The Crime Club published 2,492 titles. Radio Stories from this imprint were first dramatized on '' The Eno Crime Club'', a detective series broadcast on CBS from February 9, 1931 to December 21, 1932, sponsored by Eno Effervescent Salts. The Crime Club novels were not adapted for the later ''Eno Crime Clues'', heard on the Blue Network from January 3, 1933 to June 30. 1936. ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bookbinding, bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally Calf-binding, leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Overview Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, also known as wrappers, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, hardcover, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic. Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the 19th century in such forms as pamphlets, yellow-backs, yellowbacks and dime novels. Modern paperbacks can be differentiated from one another by size. In the United States, there are "mass-market paperbacks" and larger, more durable "trade paperbacks". In the United Kingdom, there are A-format, B-format, and the largest C-format sizes. Paperback editions of books are issued when a publisher decides to release a book in a low-cost format. Lower-quality paper, glued (rather than stapled or sewn) bindings, and the lack of a hard cover may contribute to the lower cost of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saint In Trouble
''The Saint in Trouble'' is a collection of two mystery novellas by Graham Weaver, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar a.k.a. "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris. This is the first of three Saint books written by Weaver. Charteris, who served in an editorial capacity, received front cover author credit. This book was first published in the United States in 1978 by The Crime Club. This was followed later the same year by the first British edition in paperback from Hodder and Stoughton's Cornet Books imprint. Publication of the book marked the 50th anniversary of The Saint, which had been introduced in 1928. Both the stories in this collection were adaptations of episodes of ''Return of the Saint''. This was the only Saint book published during the run of the short-lived series, although ''Salvage for the Saint'' was also based on the show. Stories The book consisted of the following stories: #The Imprudent Professor (teleplay by Terence Feely) - based on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hodder And Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.H&S - About Us - Hachette UK hodder.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2023. History Early history The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the . In 1861 the firm became Jackson, Walford and Hodder; but in 1868 Jackson and Walford retired, and[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saint's Lady
''The Saint's Lady'' is an unpublished novel by Joy Martin featuring the character of criminal-turned-detective Simon Templar (alias "The Saint") who had been created by Leslie Charteris in 1928. According to the book ''The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992'' by Burl Barer, Martin sent her manuscript to Leslie Charteris as a present in 1979. On its own, this would qualify the novel as no more than fan fiction. However Charteris, who at the time was editing a series of continuation books featuring The Saint (he had stopped writing the character full-time in 1963) was impressed enough by the manuscript to offer it to the British publishers of the Saint series, Hodder & Stoughton, for publication as the next book in the series. Barer writes that Hodder & Stoughton rejected the manuscript, apparently on the grounds that Martin had made Templar sound too Scottish. The manuscript is in the archives at Boston University. Although Barer does not d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
