Catch the Saint

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Catch the Saint is a collection of two mystery

This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1975 by Hodder & Stoughton, followed by an American edition by The Crime Club.^{[citation needed]}

Charteris, in his foreword to this volume, defines Catch the Saint as an experiment in trying to return Simon Templar to his roots in 1930s mystery fiction. While recent Saint novellas and novels published since 1968 had taken place in contemporary times and had been either adaptations of teleplays from the 1962–69 TV series, The Saint, or based upon storylines from the Saint comic strip, the two stories in Catch the Saint were original works said to take place prior to the Second World War. This makes Catch the Saint the first original (non-adapted) Saint stories to be published since 1964's Vendetta for the Saint.^{[citation needed]}

These were the last Simon Templar novellas to be written by Fleming Lee.^{[citation needed]}

Stories

The book consisted of the following stories:

1. The Masterpiece Merchant
2. The Adoring Socialite

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (June 2008)