THE SAINT CLOSES THE CASE - A Positronic Book

Simon Templar, the Saint, returns in an early, high-stakes adventure of crime, danger, and audacious heroics. First published as The Last Hero and later reissued as The Saint Closes the Case, this fast-moving Leslie Charteris novel helped establish the tone that made the Saint one of the great figures of twentieth-century popular crime fiction: elegant, reckless, witty, and perpetually at war with villainy. The novel first appeared in British magazine form in 1929 before book publication in 1930, and the later Saint title became the better-known reprint form. Here Simon Templar is drawn into a sinister plot involving secret weapons, ruthless ambition, and enemies whose schemes threaten far more than ordinary criminal profit. Charteris blends mystery, thriller, scientific menace, and the sharp-edged glamour of interwar adventure fiction, giving the Saint a case that tests both his nerve and his code. For readers of vintage mystery, classic British thrillers, pulp adventure, gentleman rogues, and early espionage-tinged crime fiction, The Saint Closes the Case remains a brisk and stylish entry in the long-running Saint series. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

Leslie Charteris was the creator of Simon Templar, the Saint, one of the most enduring figures in twentieth-century mystery and thriller fiction. Born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin in 1907, Charteris began publishing young and found lasting fame with the Saint stories, which combined crime fiction, adventure, wit, romance, and a stylish antiheroic code of justice. The Saint books became an international phenomenon across novels, short stories, radio, film, and television, helping define a particular strain of gentleman-adventurer mystery fiction that appealed to readers of British thrillers, pulp adventure, detective stories, and espionage fiction. The Saint Closes the Case belongs to the early formative period of the series, when Charteris was still sharpening the mixture of danger, charm, and moral bravado that made Simon Templar a lasting popular-fiction icon.