Call for the Saint
Garden City: Published for the Crime Club / Doubleday & Co., 1948.
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Pages age-toned, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, musty odor, very good in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on edges, spine sunned. Two novelettes: *The King of Beggars*, a mysterious "beggar king" who shakes down Chicago panhandlers, and *The Masked Angel*, crooked prize-fighting in New York.
Item #451564
Leslie Charteris
birth name: Charles Bowyer Lin
born: 5/12/1907
died: 4/15/1993
Biography
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." - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore