The Saint Goes West Quotes

“character, X Esquire, is a mysterious hero, hunting down and killing the businessmen trying to wipe out Britain by distributing quantities of free poisoned cigarettes. His second novel, The White Rider, was published the following spring, and in one memorable scene shows the hero chasing after his damsel in distress, only for him to overtake the villains, leap into their car…and promptly faint.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West

“Once upon a time, before the Hays Office got hold of me, I might easily have killed him myself.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West

“sell it to Columbia for a new Blondie.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West

“Any good reader would rule them out. The mysterious murderer just doesn’t turn out to be the cook or the butler any more. That was worked to death twenty years ago.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West

“The private road to it curled precariously up the rugged edges of brown leaping cliffs, and from the jealously stolen lawn in front of the building you could look down and see Palm Springs spread out beneath you like a map, and beyond it the floor of the desert mottled gray-green with greasewood and weeds and cactus and smoke tree, spreading through infinite clear distances across to the last spurs of the San Bernardino mountains and widening southwards towards the broad baking spreads that had once been the bed of a forgotten sea whose tide levels were still graven on the parched rocks that bordered the plain.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West

“But the 1960 French film, Le Saint mène la danse, which starred Felix Marten as the Saint, was loosely based on the story in this book, however it was so bad that Leslie Charteris wouldn’t let it be released in any English-speaking country.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West