The First Saint Omnibus by Leslie Charteris (Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, 7/6d, hc, co) [Simon Templar (The Saint)]
Doubleday, 1939. A large collection taken from the many pre-1939 volumes of Simon Templar stories and novelets, each tale prefaced with extensive commentary by Charteris written especially for this omnibus.
- vii · Foreword · Leslie Charteris · fw
- 3 · The Man Who Was Clever [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris, Hodder, 1930
rewritten from “The Five Kings” (The Thriller #13, May 5, 1929).
- 115 · The Wonderful War [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Featuring the Saint by Leslie Charteris, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931
revised from “The Judgement of the Joker” (The Thriller #17, June 1, 1929).
- 217 · The Story of a Dead Man [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Alias the Saint by Leslie Charteris, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931
rewritten from a non-Saint story of the same name (The Thriller #4, March 2, 1929).
- 319 · The Unblemished Bootlegger [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News September 4 1932, as “Shanghaied!”
- 337 · The Appalling Politician [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News October 16 1932, as “Third Degree Fires”
- 361 · The Million Pound Day [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na The Thriller #122, June 6 1931, as “Black Face”
- 449 · The Death Penalty [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Star Novels Magazine #7, Fall 1933
- 547 · The Simon Templar Foundation [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na The Thriller #262, February 10 1934, as “The Book of Fate”
- 647 · The Unfortunate Financier [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News October 8 1933, as “The Whipping of Uncle Oates”
- 671 · The Sleepless Knight [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News November 5 1933, as “The Slave Driver Sees the Red Light”
- 693 · The High Fence [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na The Thriller #280, June 16 1934, as “The Man Who Knew”
- 799 · The Unlicensed Victuallers [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na The Ace of Knaves by Leslie Charteris, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937
- 899 · The Affair of Hogsbotham [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · na Detective Fiction Weekly August 6 1938, as “The Saint at Bay”
- 1007 · The Last Word · Leslie Charteris · aw (r)
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