Introducing The Saint
Simon Templar is introduced as a young adventurer 27 years of age, who is also independently wealthy and is accompanied by a manservant named Orace. Templar and Orace stay in a place that Simon purchased from the Ministry of Defence in the small North Devon seaside town of Baycombe. The intent is to foil a plan by a mysterious individual known only as
"The Tiger" to smuggle stolen gold. Templar's motivation is to settle an
old score with The Tiger, with whom he has had prior dealings though
he's never actually met the villain, and return the gold to its
proper owner and collect a reward.
Printing History
Written by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin (1907-1993)
Ward Lock (UK)
September 1928
as Meet – the Tiger!
Doubleday's The Crime Club
March 1929
as Crooked Gold
Amalgamated Press
1929
Meet – the Tiger! The Saint in Danger
Sun Dial Press
1940
The Film
The Saint Meets the Tiger
1943
Cast
Hugh Sinclair as Templar
Jean Gillie as Patricia Holm
Wylie Watson as Horace
Clifford Evans as the Tiger.
I would like to find both the book and the movie. I enjoyed the three novellas I have read.
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