The Saint on the Spanish Main
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Author | Leslie Charteris |
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Language | English |
Series | The Saint |
Genre | Mystery fiction |
Publisher | The Crime Club |
Publication date | 1955 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Preceded by | The Saint in Europe |
Followed by | The Saint Around the World |
The Saint on the Spanish Main is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1955 by The Crime Club in the United States and Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom. This book continues the adventures of Simon Templar, alias The Saint, and is the second of three consecutive books that take a "travelogue" approach to the stories, with each taking place in a different exotic locale.
Stories
The book consisted of 6 stories:
- Bimini: The Effete Angler: A chance encounter with an arrogant business man raises paranoia about the Saint. Charteris addresses the reader several times in this story, which is also more sexually explicit than previous Saint stories.
- Nassau: The Arrow of God: Templar investigates the bizarre murder of an acerbic journalist.
- Jamaica: The Black Commissar (titled The Man from Moscow in some editions): Simon reunites with characters from "The Arrow of God" and "The Masked Angel" (from an earlier book, Call for the Saint) to bring down a communist sympathizer who has installed himself as dictator of a semi-autonomous area of Jamaica.
- Puerto Rico: The Unkind Philanthropist: Simon engages in a little identity theft as he plays a confidence scheme on a crooked businessman. The story is notable for having Templar directly refer to author Leslie Charteris by name and revealing in dialogue that novels based on his adventures exist in continuity.
- The Virgin Islands: The Old Treasure Story: Simon engages the help of a film crew in aiding a woman in a race against time to recover a sunken treasure.
- Haiti: The Questing Tycoon: Templar squares off against a man who is taking advantage of a young woman who may or may not be a voodoo priestess.
Some editions, such as the 1955 Avon Books printing, omit the Nassau and Puerto Rico stories, despite one of the remaining stories being a sequel to the former.
Television adaptations
Several stories from this collection formed the basis for episodes of the 1962-69 TV series, The Saint.
"The Arrow of God" was broadcast during the first series (episode 7) on 15 November 1962, followed by "The Effete Angler" on 29 November (episode 9). During the third series, "The Unkind Philanthropist" was broadcast on 24 December 1964 (episode 12). The Questing Tycoon was broadcast on 25 February 1965 as episode 21 of series 3 under the title "Sibao". "The Old Treasure Story" was broadcast as the final episode of the fourth series on 26 August 1965.
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- The Saint (Simon Templar)
- Patricia Holm
- Claud Eustace Teal
- Meet the Tiger (1928)
- Enter the Saint (1930)
- The Last Hero (1930)
- Knight Templar (1930)
- Featuring the Saint (UK only – 1931)
- Alias the Saint (UK only – 1931)
- Wanted for Murder (US only – 1931)
- She Was a Lady (1931)
- The Holy Terror (1932)
- Getaway (1932)
- Once More the Saint (1933)
- The Brighter Buccaneer (1933)
- The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal (1934)
- Boodle (1934)
- The Saint Goes On (1934)
- The Saint in New York (1935)
- Saint Overboard (1936)
- The Ace of Knaves (1937)
- Thieves' Picnic (1937)
- Prelude for War (1938)
- Follow the Saint (1938)
- The Happy Highwayman (1939)
- The Saint in Miami (1940)
- The Saint Goes West (1942)
- The Saint Steps In (1942)
- The Saint on Guard (1944)
- The Saint Sees it Through (1946)
- Call for the Saint (1948)
- Saint Errant (1948)
- The Saint in Europe (1953)
- The Saint on the Spanish Main (1955)
- The Saint Around the World (1956)
- Thanks to the Saint (1957)
- Señor Saint (1958)
- The Saint to the Rescue (1959)
- Trust the Saint (1962)
- The Saint in the Sun (1963)
(credited to Charteris)
- Vendetta for the Saint (1964)
- The Saint on TV (1968)
- The Saint Returns (1968)
- The Saint and the Fiction Makers (1968)
- The Saint Abroad (1969)
- The Saint in Pursuit (1970)
- The Saint and the People Importers (1971)
- Catch the Saint (1975)
- The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace (1976)
- Send for the Saint (1977)
- The Saint in Trouble (1978)
- The Saint and the Templar Treasure (1979)
- Count On the Saint (1980)
- Salvage for the Saint (1983)
- The Saint (film novelization) (1997)
- Capture the Saint (1997)
- The Saint's Second Front (1941)
- Bet on the Saint (1968)
- The Saint's Lady (1979)
- The Saint in New York (1938)
- The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
- The Saint in London (1939)
- The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
- The Saint Takes Over (1940)
- The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
- The Saint's Vacation (1941)
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
- The Saint's Return (1953)
- Le Saint mène la danse (1960)
- Le Saint prend l'affût (1966)
- The Saint (1997)
- The Fiction Makers (1968)
- Vendetta for the Saint (1969)
- The Saint and the Brave Goose (1983)
- The Saint in Manhattan (1987)
- Fear in Fun Park (1989)
- The Saint: The Blue Dulac (1989)
- The Saint: The Brazilian Connection (1989)
- The Saint: Wrong Number (1990)
- The Saint: The Software Murders (1990)
- The Saint: The Big Bang (1990)
- The Saint (2017)
- The Saint (radio program)
- The Saint (TV series)
- episodes
- theme music
- Return of the Saint
- "Vicious Circle"
- Daredevil (1929) (Teal's first appearance)
- S.W.O.R.D. (fictional organization)
- Hirondel (Templar's car)
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