Saint Overboard Quotes

“Christmas Day in the Workhouse,”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Overboard

“Every fibre of his being seemed to have been dissected into an individual sentience of its own: he was conscious of the vitality of every cell and corpuscle of his body, as though each separate atom of him was pressed into the service of that supercharged aliveness.”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Overboard

“She crossed the room quickly, startled by the loud swish of her dress as she moved, her heart throbbing at a speed which surprised her even more. Funny, she thought. Three weeks ago”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Overboard

“First thing I arsks for petrol, an’ they give me paraffin. Then when I says that ain’t what I want, they tell me they’ve got some stuff called essence, wot’s just as good. I ’as a smell of this stuff, an’ blimey if it ain’t petrol. ’Ow the thunderinell can they ’elp goin’ barmy wiv a langwidge like that?”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Overboard

“Is that all the story?” he asked, and knew that it was not. She shook her head. “Something else happened in the same year. An American salvage ship, the Salvor, went out to search a wreck off Cape Charles. The Merida, which sank in 1911 and took the Emperor Maximilian’s crown jewels to the bottom with her—another million-pound cargo. They didn’t find anything. And fish don’t wear jewellery.” “I remember the Terschelling Island fireworks—the Lutine. But that’s a new one.” “It’s not the only one. Two years before that another salvage company went over the Turbantia with a fine comb. She was torpedoed near the Maars Lightship in 1916, and she had seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds’ worth of German bullion on her—then. The salvage company knew just where to look for it. But they didn’t find it…That was quite a small job. But in 1928 the Sorima Company made an official search for a collection of uncut diamonds and other stones worth more than a million and a quarter, which were on board the Elizabethville when another U-boat got her on her way back from South Africa during the war. Well, they found a lot of ammunition in the strong-room, and thirty shillings in the safe, which didn’t show a big dividend.”
― Leslie Charteris, Saint Overboard