Charteris, Leslie

The Saint in New York...

      Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-viii] ix-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-302 [303-304: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original pictorial black cloth, spine panel stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. "This novel is perhaps the best of the tales in which Simon Templar adopts the role of Nemesis, dispensing summary justice to criminals. It is one of the grimmest tales in the Saint saga; it is a furiously paced, tightly crafted, wholly satisfactory blood-and-thunder thriller. "-Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 127-28. Basis for the first Saint movie, filmed in 1938 with Louis Hayward in the title role. Hubin (1994), p. 155. A bright, near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with wear and several closed tears at edges. Uncommon in jacket. (#80305)