Leslie Charteris wrote several books before he hit the big
time, and a few non-Saint books after. Here are some of them not
listed elsewhere.
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Dashiel Hammett wrote Secret
Agent X-9 strips from 1933 to
1934. Other writers took him over, and it is not
well-known that Leslie wrote three stories in the
series. Almost mint 1992 magazine contains
reprints of half a dozen stories, beginning with
Leslie's 2nd & 3rd strips, originally
appearing from November 1935.
Juan
Belmonte: Killer of Bulls
In 1937 Leslie's interest in Spain was evident
when he translated this book into English and
wrote an intro. Illustrated with photographs and
drawings. Because of an injury, Belmonte could
not move out of the way, so developed the
technique of standing his ground and using the
cape to deflect the bull, which is nowadays the
standard method.
The screenplay for Universal's film Lady on a Train
starring Deanna Durbin was written by Leslie. In
it there is a butler by the name of Butler. It
was also released as a cheap paperback in 1945,
which is now very hard to find. Always on brittle
brown paper (wartime quality).
This copy has some small tears & marks but is
still OK.
Leslie also wrote a book on self-teaching
Spanish - Spanish
for Fun.
Paleneo
Paleneo is Leslie Charteris' invention of a
written universal language - a cross between
heiroglyphs and esperanto. Blindingly simple
(e.g. an arrow pointing right means 'to', an
arrow pointing left means 'from'). New 1992 2nd
edn from Saint Club unsold stock. £12
Gourmet magazine 1967. Leslie was very interested in food
and cookery. During the 1960s he had a regular column in
Gourmet magazine and this is one such. Very rare. The
article is about 4 pages long. £19.99 post free.
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The above
information was taken from my CDROM 'A History of
the Saint books'