Prelude for War aka The Saint Plays with Fire
Here are some of my Leslie Charteris books for sale.
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![]() Prelude for War 1938 FIRST EDN (HARDBACK - USA) no d/w, a little faded with a couple of small marks, embossed with previous owner's name £12.50 Please select UK, EU or World delivery as appropriate for your location |
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First published in the May 1938 issue Cosmopolitan
Magazine (U.S.A.) as Prelude for War. Serialized in
Answers Magazine (UK) in 1938, as The Saint and the Sinners.
First hardcover publishing in England was by Hodder and
Stoughton, and in the U.S.A. was by The Crime Club both in 1938,
as Prelude for War. Triangle Books of the U.S.A. changed
the title to The Saint Plays With Fire in 1942. Hodder
and Stoughton changed the title to The Saint Plays With Fire
in 1951.
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,
non-Saint book details, etc. Buy it here now
Please select download or cdrom delivery as required