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The Brighter Buccaneer

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Автор: Чартерис Лесли

Серия: Saint #11

Язык: английский

Год: 1933

Издатель: Doubleday

Добавил: Admin 13 Июл 12

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The Saint has been pardoned for all crimes now and his identity is no secret. This book consists of 15 short stories which originally appeared in the Empire News, a now-defunct Sunday Newspaper, in 1932. Leslie Charteris had a contract to write a story a week for 25 weeks. They are as follows: The Brain Workers first published August 21 as To the Call of Beauty in Distress; The Export Trade first published August 28 as Diamond Cut Diamond; The Unblemished Bootlegger first published September 4 as Shanghaied!; The Owners’ Handicap first appeared September 11 as Won by a Neck; The Tough Egg first appeared September 18 as Double-Cross; The Bad Baron. From the September 25 edition; The Brass Buddha first appeared in October 2; The Perfect Crime first appeared October 9 as The Perfect Touch; The Appalling Politician was called Third Degree Fires when it first appeared October 16; The Unpopular Landlord first published October 23 as The Bullying Major; The New Swindle was known as The Mail Swindle when first published October 20 1932; The Five Thousand Pound Kiss appeared November 6 as The Star of Mandalay; The Green Goods Man was originally called The Very Green Goods Man on November 21; The Blind Spot was published as The Stolen Formulas November 13; And finally, The Unusual Ending appeared November 27 as Case of the Lady Informer.