![]() ![]() He also contributed storylines to a long-running comic strip based on The Saint. In 1941, he appeared in a Life Magazine photographic adaptation of a short story of The Saint, with himself playing The Saint. Occasionally he chose to ignore the existence of Meet the Tiger altogether and claimed that the Saint series actually began with the second volume, Enter the Saint (1930) an example of this can be found in the introduction Charteris wrote to an early 1960s edition of Enter the Saint published by Fiction Publishing Company (an imprint of Doubleday ).Īs a result, Charteris was forced to continually renew his six-month temporary visitors visa.Įventually, an act of Congress personally granted him and his daughter the right of permanent residence in the United States, with eligibility for naturalisation which he later completed. In 1926, he legally changed his last name to Charteris, after Colonel Francis Charteris, although, in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Leslie Charteris A Saintly Centennial, his daughter stated that he selected his surname from the telephone directory. He prospected for gold, dived for pearls, worked in a tin mine and on a rubber plantation, toured England with a carnival, and drove a bus. He continued to write English thriller stories, while he worked at various jobs from shipping out on a freighter to working as a barman in a country inn. He attended Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.Ĭharteris was motivated by a desire to be unconventional and to become financially well off by doing what he liked to do. ![]() ![]() His father was a physician who claimed to be able to trace his lineage back to the emperors of the Shang Dynasty.Īt one point he created his own magazine with articles, short stories, poems, editorials, serials and even a comic strip. Leslie Parma Ebook Series Actually Began. ![]()
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