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Leslie Charteris

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Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. [1]

56 relations: Agatha Christie, Audrey Long, Basil Rathbone, BBC Radio 4, Burl Barer, Chinese Exclusion Act, Deanna Durbin, Doubleday (publisher), Enter the Saint, Fan club, Fleetwood, Francis Charteris (rake), George Raft, Ghostwriter, Harry Harrison (writer), Hercule Poirot, Ian Ogilvy, Ideogram, King's College, Cambridge, Lady on a Train, Lancashire, Life (magazine), List of British Chinese people, List of works by Leslie Charteris, Manuel Chaves Nogales, Meet the Tiger, Mensa International, Midnight Club (film), Nigel Bruce, Paramount Pictures, Physician, Return of the Saint, Roger Moore, Rossall School, Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin, Salvage for the Saint, Science fiction, Screenplay, Shang dynasty, Sherlock Holmes, Simon Dutton, Singapore, Surrey, Television pilot, The American Magazine, The New York Times, The Saint (1997 film), The Saint (Simon Templar), The Saint (TV series), The Saint and the Fiction Makers, ..., The Saint in the Sun, The Saint on TV, United States Government Publishing Office, Vendetta for the Saint, Vincent Price, Windsor, Berkshire. Expand index (6 more) »

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Audrey Long

Audrey Long (April 14, 1922 – September 19, 2014) was an American actress of English descent, who appeared mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s.

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Basil Rathbone

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Burl Barer

Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

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Deanna Durbin

Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, later settled in France, who appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Enter the Saint

Enter the Saint is a collection of three interconnected adventure novellas by Leslie Charteris first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in October 1930, followed by an American edition by The Crime Club in April 1931.

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Fan club

A fan club is a group that is dedicated to a well-known person, group, or idea (such as an inanimate object, such as a famous building).

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a town and civil parish within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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Francis Charteris (rake)

Colonel Francis Charteris (baptised 4 April 1675 – 24 February 1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General",Antony E. Simpson (2004).

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author.

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Harry Harrison (writer)

Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).

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Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

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Ian Ogilvy

Ian Raymond Ogilvy (born 30 September 1943) is a British actor, playwright, and novelist.

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Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idéa "idea" and γράφω gráphō "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Lady on a Train

Lady on a Train is a 1945 crime, comedy-drama, thriller directed by Charles David and starring Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, and David Bruce.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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List of British Chinese people

This article is a list of prominent people of Chinese ancestry who were born in or have settled in the United Kingdom.

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List of works by Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin; 1907–1993) was a British-American writer best known for his series on stories featuring Simon Templar, also known as The Saint.

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Manuel Chaves Nogales

Manuel Chaves Nogales (Seville, Spain August 1897 – May, 1944 in London) was a Spanish journalist and writer.

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Meet the Tiger

Meet the Tiger is the title of an action-adventure novel written by Leslie Charteris.

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Mensa International

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.

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Midnight Club (film)

Midnight Club is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama about a gang of London jewel thieves infiltrated by an undercover agent (George Raft).

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Nigel Bruce

William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953) was a British character actor on stage and screen.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Return of the Saint

Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States.

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Roger Moore

Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor.

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Rossall School

Rossall School is a British, fee paying co-educational, independent school, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire.

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Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin

Reverend Canon Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin MA (Cantab), Chaplain and Master of Choir, was a clergyman known for introducing a tradition of choral music to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

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Salvage for the Saint

Salvage for the Saint is the title of a 1983 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Simon Dutton

Simon Dutton (born 1958) is an English actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar (alias the Saint) in a series of internationally produced television films in 1989.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Television pilot

A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network.

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The American Magazine

The American Magazine was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saint (1997 film)

The Saint is a 1997 espionage thriller DeLuxe Color film in Panavision, starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija, directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick.

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The Saint (Simon Templar)

Simon Templar is a fictional character known as The Saint.

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The Saint (TV series)

The Saint is an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969.

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The Saint and the Fiction Makers

The Saint and the Fiction Makers (some editions use the hyphenated form "Fiction-Makers") is the title of a 1968 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".

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The Saint in the Sun

The Saint in the Sun is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, featuring the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter, Simon Templar, whom Charteris introduced in 1928.

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The Saint on TV

The Saint on TV is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar a.k.a. "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris.

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United States Government Publishing Office

The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.

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Vendetta for the Saint

Vendetta for the Saint is a 1964 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor is a historic market town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Charteris

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