- Fiction, Saint (Fictitious character), American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators
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Classical in form, unpretentious, cool and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Leslie Charteris
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- MacMillan Publishing Company, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Thomas & Mercer
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781477843079
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Leslie Charteris was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin in Singapore, the son of a Chinese physician father and an English mother. He started writing in childhood, creating his own magazine with articles, short stories, poetry, editorials, serials, comic strip. In 1926, he legally changed his last name to Charteris. He wrote his first book, X Esquire (1927), as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. When it was accepted for publication, he left university to became a professional writer. He continued to write thrillers while supporting himself by working odd jobs, including as laborer on a freighter, bartender in a country inn, gold prospector, pearl fisher, tin miner, laborer on a rubbe
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