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THE SAINT IN PURSUIT
Leslie Charteris'
THE
SAINT
IN
PURSUIT
PUBLISHED FOR THE CRIME CLUB BY
DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC.
GABDEN CITY, NEW YORK
1970
All of the characters in this book
are fictitious, and any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-123684
Copyright © 1970 by Leslie Charteris
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Readers who have an uneasy feeling that they have "read" this new book
before can relax again. They haven't. But they may be recalling the plot of
the original comic strip on which it is based, which was syndicated by the
New York
Herald Tribune
between July 17, 1959, and January 7, 1960. Of
course, I wrote that, too.
LC
THE SAINT IN PURSUIT
I: How Simon Templar answered a
Summons, and Vicky Kinian
was Observed.
It is a philosophical observation so profound as to be platitudinous, that a
man's past is never finally past until he is buried; that any encounter, any
incident in his life, though he may long since have filed it away as ancient
history and for all everyday purposes forgotten it, may only be waiting with
the infinite patience of a time-bomb to make violent re-entry into the
peacefully lulled passage of his days.
This fact has been discovered with grave discomfiture by such diverse
divisions of mankind as professional puritans, retired embezzlers,
complacent bigamists, signers of petitions, devisers of unsolvable murders,
and ambitious politicians who go into public life without first making sure
that certain smouldering letters have been permanently extinguished.
In this episode of the chronicles of Simon Templar with which we are about
to be concerned, the bomb had been planted during a war which ended a
quarter of a century before the fuse ran out of its length. And if he could
accept such a delayed resurrection with his equanimity ruffled by little more
than a raised eyebrow, it was because he was within certain limits a

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