Title: Prelude for war
Subtitle: a new Saint story
Description: [Variant titles: Prelude for war; The Saint and the sinners.)

(from the back cover)
How simon Templar handled a fire, led Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal up the garden path, bewildered the constabulary, eloped with a lady, incarcerated a Cabinet Minister and in many other ways bettered his lot without burning his fingers.
Subjects: Fiction, Saint (Fictitious character), Private investigators, The Saint (Ficitious character); swashbuckling Robin Hood, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Saint (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, general
Places: England
People: The Saint, Patricia Holm, Chief Inspector Teal, Hoppy Uniatz (all four fictional)