Enter the Saint
Garden City: The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover.
Three stories: The Man Who Was Clever, The Policeman with Wings, & The Lawless Lady. From the dust wrapper flap: To Scotland Yard and the underworld alike, Simon Templar was known as the Saint, because of the little scrawled figure with a halo around its head which he left always at the scene of his exploits. He was the Robin Hood of modern crime, respected – and badly wanted – by the Yard; hated and feared by the lawless, no matter how highly placed or powerful they were. Here is the record of three of his great adventures – the story of Mr. Edgar Hayne, very rich, very clever; of a policeman who was not a policeman, and who died for it; and of “Straight” Audrey Perowne, alias the Countess Anusia Marova. Don’t miss Simon Templar – the gayest, hardest-boiled of adventurers, who cared more for righting the wrongs the law could not touch than for such things as safety and respectability.
From the author’s forward: "Since The Last Hero, many people have asked me how the Saint came by the reputation that he already had at the beginning of that story, and what cause there was for so many to fear him and some few to love him as they did. It is in the hope of pleasing these people that I have put together these tales of some of his earlier exploits, which are also the stories of Archie Sheridan, Roger Conway, Dicky Tremayne and Norman Kent, who were with him in all his misdeeds. And if it be thought that there is too little of Norman Kent in these stories, it should be remembered that in the end he did that which may yet set him above them all.”
Item #9011935 x 7-5/8", black cloth with red titles and "Saint" motif front board, red endpapers with white "Saint" motif, red top-edge, 320pp.
Faint staining to cloth, ink notation and erasure first paste-down endpaper else clean of owner’s marks, foxing to edges of text block and sporadic internal foxing, tight, very good in worn yet intact dust wrapper, in protective mylar.
Price: $350.00