The Saint Overboard. Fifteenth in the Volume of the Saint Saga

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full gilt-embossed rose madder cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 320. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Leslie Charteris (12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.[1] He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of the charming anti-hero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." Charteris utilized three formats for delivering his stories. Besides full-length novels, he wrote novellas for the most part published in magazines and later in volumes of two or three stories. He also wrote short stories featuring the character, again mostly for magazines and later compiled into omnibus editions. In later years these short stories carried a common theme, such as the women Templar meets or exotic places he visits. With the exception of Meet the Tiger, chapter titles of Templar novels usually contain a descriptive phrase describing the events of the chapter; for example, Chapter Four of Knight Templar is titled "How Simon Templar dozed in the Green Park and discovered a new use for toothpaste".