The Ace of Knaves: The Saint Goes Into Action

Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Very Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.7cm); publisher's black cloth with red lettering and decoration to spine; red topstain; [xii],296pp. Missing jacket. Boards shelfworn with light bumps to corners and spine ends, some faint scuffs to surface, and a brief run to cloth at bottom front. Spine cocked. Opens easily between a few gatherings but binding secure. Pages unmarked.

Collection of three novellas — The Spanish War, The Unlicensed Victuallers, and The Beauty Specialist — all featuring Simon Templar, with all three stories adapted as episodes of The Saint television series starring Roger Moore.