title: The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris' Robin Hood of Modern Crime, Simon Templar, 1928-1992
author:  Burl Barer 
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  # SEÑOR SAINT
  
  # Leslie Charteris
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  I.
  
  The Pearls of Peace
  
  II.
  
  The Revolution Racket
  
  III..
  
  The Romantic Matron
  
  IV.
  
  The Golden Frog
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK ONE
  
  The Pearls of Peace
  
  1.
  
  Before the idea becomes too firmly established that Simon Templar (or, as it
  usually seems easier to call him, the Saint) never bothered to steal anything
  of which the value could be expressed in less than six figures, I want to tell
  here the story of the most trivial robbery he ever committed.
  
  The popular conception of the meanest theft that can be committed is
  epitomized in the cliche of “stealing pennies from a blind man.” Yet that,
  almost literally, is what the Saint once did. And he is perhaps prouder of it
  than of any other larceny in a list which long ago assumed the dimensions of
  an epic.
  
  The Saint has been called by quite a thesaurus of romantic names, of which
  “The Robin Hood of Modern Crime” and “The Twentieth Century’s Brightest
  Buccaneer” are probably the h