This May 1963 issue of The Saint Mystery Magazine, edited by Leslie Charteris, features five mystery and crime stories. The lead story is Charteris's own "The Simon Templar Foundation," an early Saint tale wherein the daring vigilante Simon Templar arrives in England by ship carrying concealed weapons and a mysterious black book. He immediately identifies a military-looking man surveilling the platform as one of several expected adversaries. Also included are "The Man Who Hated Amelia Jones" by Edgar Wallace; "The Tao Tone" by Robert Bloch; "Story to Be Whispered" by Cornell Woolrich; and "Women Are Such Strange Creatures" by Louis Golding. Additional stories by Miriam Allen deFord, Wenzell Brown, Robert Andrea, and Avram Davidson complete the issue. Charteris's editorial discusses capital punishment in detective fiction and the Saint's moral philosophy regarding execution of criminals beyond the courtroom.
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- Date
- May 1963
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