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Leslie Charteris (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr t ər ɪ s /; born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of his hero Simon Templar , alias " The Saint ".
Pictured left: A first edition signed Meet the Tiger, currently up for sale at Abebooks for £30,000. Charteris utilized three formats for delivering his stories. Besides full-length novels, he wrote novellas for the most part published in magazines and later in volumes of two or three stories.
Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin; 1907–1993) was a British-American writer best known for his series on stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as The Saint.
Apr 18, 1993 · Leslie Charteris, the mystery writer whose debonair hero, The Saint, made the transition from the printed page to movies in the 1930's and to a popular television series in the 1960's, died on...
May 9, 2024 · Leslie Charteris (born May 12, 1907, Singapore—died April 15, 1993, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.) was an author of highly popular mystery-adventure novels and creator of Simon Templar, better known as “the Saint” and sometimes called the “Robin Hood of modern crime.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 19, 1993 · In the end the Saint - Simon Templar, the flamboyant and buccaneering character who spectacularly robbed the rich and the villainous and gave to the out-of-luck, the swindled, the oppressed - made...
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Apr 18, 1993 · Leslie Charteris, 85, the urbane mystery writer who created the equally urbane Simon Templar, also known as the Saint, died April 15 at a hospital in Windsor, England.
