Trust the Saint

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Trust the Saint
The Saint
GenreMystery, Short Stories
PublisherThe Crime Club (US)
Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Publication date
1962
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded byThe Saint to the Rescue 
Followed byThe Saint in the Sun 

Trust the Saint is a collection of

Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and was published around the time the character began to receive wide recognition through the TV series The Saint starring Roger Moore
as Templar.

Stories

The book consisted of 6 stories:

  1. The Helpful Pirate
  2. The Bigger Game
  3. The Cleaner Cure
  4. The Intemperate Reformer
  5. The Uncured Ham
  6. The Convenient Monster

Television adaptations

Two stories from this collection were later adapted as episodes of the 1962-69 TV series, The Saint.

"The Helpful Pirate" and "The Convenient Monster" aired back-to-back during the fifth season, airing on 28 October and 4 November 1966 respectively.

Reprints

  • "The Convenient Monster" was one of a handful of stories in the Saint canon that crossed over into the realm of fantasy, and was reprinted in the December 1965 edition of
    The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
    .