Catch the Saint

Catch the Saint

infobox Book |
name = Catch the Saint
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Fleming Lee, based upon stories by Norman Worker, and characters by Leslie Charteris
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = The Saint
genre = Mystery, Novellas
publisher = The Crime Club
release_date = 1975
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = ISBN 0-385-09936-3
preceded_by = The Saint and the People Importers
followed_by = The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace

"Catch the Saint" is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, based upon stories by Norman Worker continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar aka "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris. As per usual practice at this point in the series, the front cover credits Charteris, although Lee and Worker receive interior title page credit; Charteris served in an editorial capacity. Some editions misspell the author's name "Flemming Lee."

This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1975 by Hodder and Stoughton, followed by an American edition by The Crime Club.

Charteris, in his forward to this volume, defines "Catch the Saint" as an experiment in trying to return Simon Templar to his roots in 1930s mystery fiction. While recent Saint novellas and novels published since 1968 had taken place in contemporary times and had been either adaptations of teleplays from the 1962-69 TV series, "The Saint", or based upon storylines from the "Saint" comic strip, the two stories in "Catch the Saint" were original works said to take place prior to the Second World War. This makes "Catch the Saint" the first original (non-adapted) Saint stories to be published since 1964's "Vendetta for the Saint".

These were the last Simon Templar novellas to be written by Fleming Lee.

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The book consisted of the following stories:

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