Wanted for Murder

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Title Wanted for Murder
 also The Saint Wanted for Murder

1943 edition, Sun Dial Press
Author Leslie Charteris
Country United States
Language English
Series The Saint
Genre(s) Mystery, Novella
Publisher The Crime Club
Released 1931
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
Preceded by Knight Templar
Followed by She Was a Lady

Wanted for Murder is the title of a collection of six mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris which was first published in the United States in 1931.

This book was part of an ongoing series of novels and novellas by Charteris featuring the adventures of his Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter, Simon Templar, alias The Saint.

Wanted for Murder holds an unusual place in the Charteris canon as this book featured the first American publication of the stories contained within the books Featuring the Saint and Alias the Saint, which were published in the United Kingdom earlier in 1931 by Hodder and Stoughton. In most cases, The Crime Club, an imprint of Doubleday, simply published American editions of the Saint books (occasionally retitled), but this was the first -- and only -- occasion in which The Crime Club chose not to publish two of Charteris' books, instead deciding to combine them into an American-only omnibus release.

The book was later republished by Sun Dial Press in 1943 and retitled The Saint Wanted for Murder; Avon Books also published a pulp paperback edition. In the 1950s, an American edition of Alias the Saint appeared in paperback, however this book (subtitled "excerpts from Wanted for Murder") contained only two stories -- one from Alias the Saint and one from Featuring the Saint. Complete US editions of the two books did not appear until the early 1960s; once again, these books were promoted as featuring "excerpts from Wanted for Murder".

Wanted for Murder contained the following stories:

From Featuring the Saint:

1. The Logical Adventure
2. The Wonderful War
3. The Man Who Could Not Die

From Alias the Saint:

4. The Story of a Dead Man
5. The Impossible Crime
6. The National Debt

See the articles for Featuring the Saint and Alias the Saint for more information about these stories and their original publication.

 v • d • e The Saint, created by Leslie Charteris
Characters: Simon Templar | Patricia Holm | Claud Eustace Teal | Hoppy Uniatz | Roger Conway
Books by Leslie Charteris
Meet - The Tiger! (1928) | Enter the Saint (1930) | The Last Hero (1930) | Knight Templar (1930) | Featuring the Saint (UK only-1931) | Alias the Saint (UK only-1931) | Wanted for Murder (US only-1931) | She Was a Lady (1931) | The Holy Terror (1932) | Getaway (1932) | Once More the Saint (1933) | The Brighter Buccaneer (1933) | The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal (1934) | Boodle (1934) | The Saint Goes On (1934) | The Saint in New York (1935) | Saint Overboard (1936) | The Ace of Knaves (1937) | Thieves' Picnic (1937) | Prelude for War (1938) | Follow the Saint (1939) | The Happy Highwayman (1939) | The Saint in Miami (1940) | The Saint Goes West (1942) | The Saint Steps In (1942) | The Saint on Guard (1944) | The Saint Sees it Through (1946) | Call for the Saint (1948) | Saint Errant (1948) | The Saint in Europe (1953) | The Saint on the Spanish Main (1955) | The Saint Around the World (1956) | Thanks to the Saint (1957) | Señor Saint (1958) | The Saint to the Rescue (1959) | Trust the Saint (1962) | The Saint in the Sun (1963)
Collaborations (credited to Charteris)
Vendetta for the Saint (1964) | The Saint on TV (1968) | The Saint Returns (1968) | The Saint and the Fiction Makers (1968) | The Saint Abroad (1969) | The Saint in Pursuit (1970) | The Saint and the People Importers (1971) | Catch the Saint (1975) | The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace (1976) | Send for the Saint (1977) | The Saint in Trouble (1978) | The Saint and the Templar Treasure (1979) | Count on the Saint (1980) | Salvage for the Saint (1983)
Books by Burl Barer
The Saint (film novelization) (1997) | Capture the Saint (1997)
Unpublished works
Bet on the Saint (1968) | The Saint's Lady (1979)
Theatrical films
The Saint in New York (1938) | The Saint Strikes Back (1939) | The Saint in London (1939) | The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) | The Saint Takes Over (1940) | The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) | The Saint's Vacation (1941) | The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) | The Saint's Girl Friday (1953) | Le Saint mène la danse (1960) | Le Saint prend l'affut (1966) | The Saint (1997)
Made-for-TV films
The Fiction Makers (1968) | Vendetta for the Saint (1969) | The Saint and the Brave Goose (1983) |

The Saint in Manhattan (1987)
Television series
The Saint (1962-1969) | Return of the Saint (1978-1979) | Mystery Wheel of Adventure (1989)
The Saint Actors
Louis Hayward | George Sanders | Hugh Sinclair | Félix Marten | Jean Marais | Roger Moore | Ian Ogilvy | Andrew Clarke | Simon Dutton | Val Kilmer
Related articles
Daredevil (1929) (Teal's first appearance) | S.W.O.R.D. (fictional organization)
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