Saint Meets His Match Quotes

“pocket and produced a sheet of paper. He laid it on the desk beneath Cullis’s eyes. “What about that?” he asked. Cullis looked at a little drawing that was already familiar to him—a childish sketch of a little skeleton man with a symbolical halo woven round his head. But beside this figure there was another such as neither Cullis nor Teal had even seen before in that context—a figure that wore a skirt and no halo. And under these drawings were three words: “April the First.” “What about that?” asked Essenden again. Teal raised his sleepy eyes to the calendar on the wall. “A week next Friday,” he said. “Are you superstitious?”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Meets his Match

“He glanced round the room, and selected a battered pickelhaube—relic of a grimmer warfare than that.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Meets his Match

“There are half a dozen of the boys downstairs.'
'Can you stop him getting in ?'
Donnell grinned.
'I could stop an army' he said.
'Can you stop the Saint ?”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Meets His Match