 According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom (a company that originally published only religious books) and The Crime Club (an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction) in the United States.For the first 20 years, the books were first published in Britain, with the United States edition following up to a year later.By the late 1940s to early 1950s, this situation had been reversed.