The Saint on TV
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| Author | Fleming Lee, based upon teleplays by John Kruse and characters by Leslie Charteris |
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| Publisher | The Crime Club |
| Released | 1968 |
The Saint on TV is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar aka "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris. This book was first published in the United States in 1968 by The Crime Club, and in the United Kingdom later that year by Hodder and Stoughton. This is the first time since 1948's Call for the Saint that the novella format had been used in the series.
This was the first of several volumes of stories novelising episodes of the 1962-69 television series The Saint. This book also started the practice of crediting Charteris on the cover, when in fact other authors actually wrote the text. In his introduction to this book, Charteris names Fleming Lee as his hand-picked successor, an indicates his preference for having original storylines by John Kruse be used whenever possible. Charteris identifies this process of ghost writing as "an unprecedented experiment in team work". Charteris remained in editorial control of the books.
This book does not contain Lee's first Simon Templar adventures, as he had previously assisted in writing at least two of the French-language Saint novels published in the late 1950s.[1]
[edit] Stories
The book consisted of the following stories:
- The Death Game - based on the story by John Kruse and the teleplay by Harry W. Junkin
- The Power Artist - based on the teleplay by Kruse.
