The Saint in Pursuit [SEP] series
The Saint in Pursuit
The Saint in Pursuit is the title of a 1970 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The novel is credited to Leslie Charteris, who created the Saint in 1928, but the book was authored by Fleming Lee and is adapted from a comic strip story by Charteris. Charteris served in an editorial capacity on the adaptation. It was the first full-length Saint novel since 1964's "Vendetta for the Saint".
The book was first published in
, but only a fragment survives. St Boniface also wrote about him, and left the largest extant record of him.
References.
- Jeffrey B. Russell, "Saint Boniface and the Eccentrics". "Church History". Vol. 33, No. 3, Sep., 1964
- Lewis Spence, "The Encyclopedia of the Occult", reprinted 1988
- "Imposters", from the "Catholic Encyclopedia", 1913
- Norman Cohn, "The Pursuit of the Millennium", 1957