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Senor Saint [Señor Saint].

CHARTERIS, Leslie (1907-1993).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp189. Publisher's cloth in dustwrapper. Very light handling and dustiness; a clean, near fine copy. Most attractive. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer, including 'The Pearls of Peace' and 'The Revolution Racket'. Simon Templar takes a Latin-American holiday and runs into four luscious cases of larceny, swindle, murder and revolution! Item #49863

Haining; Crime Fiction p.80. Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction p.116. Steinbrunner and Penzler pp.349-351.

Price: £85.00

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