Thieves’ Picnic aka The Saint Bids Diamonds
Here are some of my Leslie Charteris Thieves' Picnic/Saint bids Diamonds books for sale.
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 The Saint Bids Diamonds 1942 Triangle edn, lovely condition. £9.99 Please select UK, EU or World delivery as appropriate for your location |
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Following on from The Ace of Knaves, we have another
playing-card link with the retitling of this book (Leslie had a
spell as a professional bridge player, so would certainly have
bid diamonds at some stage).
Condensed version (omitting Hoppy Uniatz among other things)
published first in The American magazine May 1937 set in Haiti
but book is set in Canaries. First published hardback as
Thieves’ Picnic by H&S (UK) light blue cloth covers,
& Crime Club (USA) 1937. Triangle Books changed title to The
Saint Bids Diamonds 1942 which H&S kept in their 1950
edition. Charter Books decided to call it The Saint at the
Thieves’ Picnic in 1980.
Contents:
I How Simon Templar Took Exercise, and Hoppy Uniatz Quenched His
Thirst
II How Simon Templar Conversed with a Porter, and a Brace of
Guardias Were Happily Reunited
III How Simon Templar Read a Newspaper, and Reuben Grainer Put on
His Hat
IV How Simon Templar Rose to the Occasion, and the Thieves’
Picnic got Further Under Way
V How Reuben Grainer Took Back his Gun, and a Taxi Driver was
Unconvinced
VI How Simon Templar Ate Without Enthusiasm, and Mr Uniatz was
Also Troubled about His Breakfast
VII How Mr Palermo Continued to be Unlucky, and Hoppy Uniatz
Obeyed Orders
VIII How Mr Uniatz was Bewildered about Bopping, and Simon
Templar was Polite to a Lady
IX How Simon Templar Enjoyed a Joke, and How Mr Lauber Was Not
Amused
X How Simon Templar Paid his Debt, and Christine Vanlinden
Remembered Hers
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
