The Saint

In Monte Carlo, the Saint saves the life of Fallouda, the ex-king of Fedyra. Fallouda tells him he aims to return to power and will raise money by selling the jewelry of his wife, Queen Adana. The Saint and Adana set out to collect the jewels, the journey being initially icy as the queen is the daughter of a London bus driver and feels the Saint should give her more respect.

In Venice, the Saint comes to the aid of Cathy Allardyce when she is found next to the dead body of the lustful Prince Ubaldo. Cathy's father was responsible for the death of the brother of the disreputable nightclub owner 'Foots' Fortunati, who is now out for revenge and, his first plan having failed, he abducts Cathy The Saint sets out to rescue her and is taken at gunpoint to see Fortunati.

Whilst on holiday in Switzerland the Saint is approached by Irma Jorovitch who says she has come from Sweden, where she was raised by her mother, at the request of her father, a Russian professor who is in Geneva for a conference and anxious to defect to the West. However, he is being held prisoner in a lakeside chateau by Soviet officers and she begs the Saint to free him.

The Saint is in the banana republic of San Pablo where a girl called Diane tries to shoot Victor Lawrence, principal advisor to President Alvarez. The Saint whisks her away from the police and she tells him that Lawrence is a fraudster, using an assumed name. He stole money from her father's business and her father was charged, dying in prison.

On behalf of British Intelligence the Saint journeys to Hamburg to locate Professor Roeding, who disappeared whilst shopping for antiques there and after ringing his daughter to say that he was on the verge of making a fortune. Re-tracing the professor's steps the Saint is approached by Eva, a young lady who takes him for a night on the town.

A man and a dog are both killed by the shores of Loch Ness by what would appear to have been the monster.

Lord Cranmore, an aristocrat on his financial uppers, is anxious to sell a family diamond called the Angel's Eye and the Saint rides shotgun when Cranmore's employee Tom Upwater and his daughter Mabel go to Amsterdam to have the diamond cut. Tom delivers it to a jeweler called Jonkheer whilst the Saint entertains Mabel to the tourist sights.

In Rome the Saint is due to meet Tony, a journalist friend anxious to tell him about a man who 'liked lions' but Tony is found dead, stabbed with a knife carved with a lion's head. Claudia, Tony's girlfriend, tells the Saint that Tony's diary should contain a clue as to the reason for his murder but other addresses in the diary are also dying off.

The Saint is in the South of France and is the chief suspect following a spate of jewel robberies from rooms of hotel guests. The actual thieves hope to incriminate the Saint by planting some of the loot in his room but one of them falls from the balcony to his death. Not convinced of the Saint's innocence the local police chief has the Saint tailed by the inept Alphonse, whom he enjoys eluding.

In Ireland, the Saint rescues a girl called Mildred from thugs. She tells him that she is Hitler's daughter and she is being used in a plot to revive Naziism. Skeptical of this yarn the Saint discovers that she is the daughter of the wealthy Eugene Drew and she is running away to elope with a young man of whom her father disapproves.

Simon goes to East Germany to bring back a defector who is planning to trade a list of secret agents in return for the life of his father.

Simon Templar decides to aid Israeli operatives in the capture of an escaped Nazi war criminal.

The Osprey is a new experimental plane and was being test-flown by Flight Lieutenant Mike Gregory until his recent court-martial. Now Middle Eastern agents are using Mike to steal the plane, kidnapping his sister Diane. Having rescued Diane, the Saint goes after Mike, getting himself parachuted into unknown territory to fly the Osprey home.

Simon is caught burgling a house by Teal and sentenced to ten years in Princetown Prison.

Templar is caught in blackmail, jealousy and murder after saving the life of a British colony's prime minister; guest Edward Woodward.

At Brands Hatch motor racing circuit the Saint meets Cynthia Quillen and Teresa Montesino, two racing drivers who are deadly rivals. Whilst the Saint is testing Cynthia's car he discovers that it has been sabotaged. He also intercepts an assassin out to murder Cynthia with a high-powered rifle but the killer is himself shot before he can tell the Saint who wants Cynthia out of the way.

One night the Saint gets himself involved with 'the Death Game'. It is a cult which has sprung up amongst students from different colleges who compete in war games with each other. However, the tutor of one group of students tells the Saint he thinks there is a far more sinister purpose to the game and then he is killed in an explosion.

In Paris, the Saint meets Natasha, who tells him she wishes to sell some priceless paintings. They contact an art dealer but he is intercepted by phony policemen who tell Natasha that the Saint has killed the dealer and then removed the paintings from her. The Saint convinces Natasha of his innocence when he retrieves the pictures but has to work hard to bring the real killers to justice.

In Paris, somebody tricks shady night-club owner Paul Verrier into believing that the Saint is trying to kill him so he hires people to rub out the Saint. One of these is a young girl who fires blanks at the Saint, telling him that she wants to get close to Verrier as she believes he killed her father.

emperamental film star Serena Harris is kidnapped at gunpoint from the set of a Biblical epic in which she is starring as Delilah in Rome. The Saint manages to locate where she is being held but, given her unpopularity, he has a wide number of suspects to choose from as the instigator of her abduction.

Simon arrives at the Caribbean at the request of a friend who is killed before he can explain why he needs to see him.

Simon is assigned to protect Russian colonel Smolenko following the deaths of several Soviet agents.

A highly valuable necklace is stolen from Lord Gillingham by his secretary Kate, who kills the jeweler in the process.

Simon is framed for the murder of a young sculptor named Loudon.

The Saint is approached by British intelligence, learning that the Russians are planning to free their spy John Spring when he appears at court. Spring is really a double agent and the Saint is asked to ensure that he eludes the Russians. At the same time Spring's wife comes to see the Saint, offering money to help her husband escape.