by Leslie Charteris
New York: Charter, [1984].
First edition thus, first printing: Mass-market paperback
Fine, tight and unread copy in attractively illustrated wraps.
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Book 37 in the Saint (Simon Templar) series: A novel.
"Relaxing at a sumptuous mid-day meal in Naples, Simon Templar, alias the
Saint, was understandably annoyed when a brawl interrupted his Lobster
alla Vesuvio, a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian
as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his
hulking henchman on the bewildered little Briton, after forcibly
returning the two combatants to their respective corners, the Saint
returned to the marvels of his Neopolitan cuisine and dismissed the
matter from his mind, when the following morning's headlines screamed at
him TURISTA INGLESE TROVATO ASSASSINATO, the Saint pledged himself to a
strangely impersonal vendetta which took him to Sicily, a land
particularly suited to that ancient, bloody custom, from then on, except
for an interlude with a luscious Italian pasta name Gina, it was
all-out, heel-stomping war, with the Robin Hood of Modern Crime pitted
against the arch-evil, centuries-old traditions of the Mafia."--Fantastic Fiction.
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