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Thanks to the Saint

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1957

Originally published
  
1957

Publisher
  
The Crime Club

Genres
  
Mystery, Short story

Series
  
The Saint

Followed by
  
Señor Saint

Author
  
Leslie Charteris

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Preceded by
  
The Saint Around the World

Similar
  
Leslie Charteris books, Mystery books

Thanks to the Saint is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in December 1957 by The Crime Club in the United States and by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom in 1958.

Contents

Stories

The book consisted of 6 stories:

  1. "The Bunco Artists"
  2. "The Happy Suicide"
  3. "The Good Medicine"
  4. "The Unescapable Word" (sic)
  5. "The Perfect Sucker"
  6. "The Careful Terrorist"

Television adaptations

All but one of the stories in this collection formed the basis for episodes of the 1962-69 TV series, The Saint.

"The Careful Terrorist" appeared as the third episode of the first season, airing on October 18, 1962. "The Bunco Artists" and "The Good Medicine" appeared in season two, on December 19, 1963 and February 6, 1964, respectively. "The Unescapable Word" was retitled to the more grammatically correct "The Inescapable Word" and aired on January 28, 1965 during season 3, followed by "The Happy Suicide" on March 11.

References

Thanks to the Saint Wikipedia
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