The Happy Highwayman
Here are some of my Leslie Charteris Happy Highwayman books for sale.
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 The nicest copy of Happy Highwayman I've seen. 1951 reset edition. Clean and bright HB with Yellow Jacket d/w which just has a couple of small tears. UK version. £12.00 |
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First published in New York by The Crime Club, Inc., 1939, the
title page verso states "First Edition". The stories
are set in America, and The Saint's police foil is Inspector
Fernack. The stories were re-written for the H&S 1939 UK
edition (some later editions erroneously state ‘July
1933’) to set them in England with Chief Inspector Teal. So
far as I am aware, this is the only Saint book to have had this
treatment. It was also printed by Musson in Canada, and I presume
that was the US version, having never seen a copy.
The stories (with previous incarnations if any):
The Man who was Lucky from The American magazine December 1935 as
Date in the Dark. A frightened witness is helped by the Saint;
The Smart Detective first appeared in The American magazine June
1936 as The Saint & the Siren. Inspector Corrio was too smart
for his own good;
The Wicked Cousin was first published in The American magazine
June 1936 as The Saint in Hollywood. A girl inherits some
letters;
The Well-meaning Mayor was published in The American magazine
August 1936 as Don’t Shoot the Mayor. A small-town honest
mayor is viewed as a crook by its citizens;
The Benevolent Burglary is committed after Simon Templar bets
that it will be;
The Star Producers are looking for theatre production backers.
The Saint obliges;
The Saint bets The Charitable Countess that he will steal her
necklace. First appeared In Detective Fiction Weekly;
The Mug’s Game is where someone (i.e. The Saint) falls for a
conjuring trick con;
The Man who Liked Ants was a crazy scientist who wanted the
insects to inherit the world. This story, like the last few, was
written specially for the book but was reprinted in The Magazine
of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1953.
Detective Fiction Weekly March 4 1939 contains first printing of
The Charitable Countess - or may have been at same time as book.
Doesn’t seem to appear in the reference books.
The above information
was taken from my CDROM 'A History of the Saint books'
It is an ebook in pdf format and has over 200 pages full of
information and over 600 pictures of my favourite cover art.
It costs £5.99 to download from the web, but because it is so
large it could take a long time to download on a slow link.
It costs £6.99 on cdrom to anywhere in the World.
New edition contains lots more biographical, radio, TV, comics,
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