Simon goes to visit an old friend Madge, and becomes interested in her playwright husband's coloured past. He finds he is not alone as Madge's new next-door neighbour is also curious about Mr John Clarron.
Holidaying in Rome The Saint befriends Sue Inverest, the daughter of an American Senator. Sue is later kidnapped by mobster Tony Uncielli who is demanding the reprieve of his brother who is currently being held on Death Row in the U.S., and it is up to Simon Templar to save Sue, and the day.
The Saint assumes the job of journalist who was murdered exposing Nat Grindel, a corrupt union boss who ordered a bombing to bury the reporter's investigation.
The Saint then finds himself on the receiving end of a murder plan as Grindel attempts to keep his actions under wraps. However as many crooks have found out to their chagrin, not all goes to plan when The Saint is afoot.
The Saint meets beautiful Valerie North on a flight to Paris, and becomes embroiled in secret treasures, hidden fortunes, and wartime resistance heroism when Valerie's brother whom she hasn't seen for twenty years turns up murdered.
The Saint befriends a young boy on a flight to Switzerland who is emigrating to the United States with his father and step-mother, only to witness the murder of the boy's father upon their arrival. The Saint is then hired by the boy's step-mother to locate a brief case that went missing during the murder.
The Saint sets off to find Brad Ryan, a friend whom he helped finance to search for pearls in Mexico, when Ryan does not return. In Mexico Simon comes across an injured man, a loving woman, and precious pearls in a way that only Simon Templar could.
Simon Templar is vacationing in Nassau, The Bahamas. He is invited to spend the weekend at the winter compound of an old friend, plump, middle-aged heiress Lucy Wexall and her kept husband Herbert. The weekend guest list includes many stereotypical luminaries of the early 1960s "jet-set" (international celebrities.)
There's John Herrick, budding tennis star who is courting Lucy's equally wealthy, but much younger and shapely sister, Janet. Also included is Miss Pauline Stone, Mr. Wexall's personal assistant and paramour. There's Arthur Greyson, a slick operator who is trying to get Mr. Wexall to invest his wife's money in a speculative oil deal. There's Astron, an Indian mystic who has befriended Lucy. Astron, despite detesting materialism, enjoys meditating by the swimming pool on the Wexall's sumptuous Nassau estate.
When Floyd Vosper, noted gossip columnist and celebrity smut monger arrives, the mood turns sour. Mr. Vosper has dirt on all of the guests and threatens to dish it in his widely-carried thrice weekly syndicated newspaper column.
After insulting and needling the Wexalls and their guests with his accumulated dossier of nefarious swill, Vosper retires to the beach for an afternoon nap after imbibing nearly an entire bottle of brandy after lunch. Shortly before dinner, Vosper is discovered on the beach, murdered, with an arrow through his chest. All of the guests had more than enough reason to dispatch Mr. Vosper to conceal their scandalous secrets. Who killed the despised Floyd Vosper?
Despite the skepticism of the local police inspector, Major Fanshire, Simon proceeds to unravel a murder mystery in the best whodunnit tradition of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
The Saint utilizes his own special methods of law and order to bring a crooked lawyer and his murderous client to justice.
Embarking on a fishing trip in the Caribbean, The Saint comes across a glamorous girl who's more of a catch than meets the eye.
The Saint contrives to teach the bride-to-be of one of his oldest friends a few lessons about life during a 100 mile walk on the Costa Brava.
The Saint is called upon to help a bookmaker friend and his girlfriend who are being harassed by a gangster who makes his own odds. The gangster will stop at nothing - including murder - to ensure that things go his way; however, he hasn't come across The Saint until now.
The Saint attends a charity ball held by Countess Rovagna; an American stripper who married into her title, and discovers charity begins at home for the Countess. Orphans, a homeless mission, and a Man of the Cloth all aid in helping The Saint ensure the ball is a night no one will forget.
A man is shot dead as he reveals to the Saint that he was forced to steal satellite blueprints from his place of work. As the Saint follows the trail from the factory to the Blue Goose, he encounters the mysterious Magda Vamoff, a spy ring, and men desperate to keep their secrets safe.
The Saint's opportunity to become a film star is over before it starts with the death of the film's producer. As the story unfolds there is an attempt to frame the Saint, and the film's jilted star is only one candidate amongst a cast of many with reasons to want the producer dead.
Judith Northwade approaches the Saint for his help in a case of family betrayal. Upon hearing how her uncle stole the design for a new combustion engine he is about to sell from her father the Saint agrees to break in to her uncle's residence and steal the plans for her, but is everything as it seems?
The Saint takes a trip with some unlikely bedfellows through Mexico to find a missing husband. Tampered brakes, knives, guns, and a band of rebels all have a role in ensuring the trip is one the Saint will enjoy.
Mrs. Ellshaw is murdered soon after seeing her husband who is supposed to be overseas. Being shot is a fate that also befalls her former employer, Sir John Ripwell, who survives the incident that occurred while out hunting on his estate, where the Saint is a guest of his daughter. The Saint puts his talents toward unravelling the mystery of who wants who dead, and why.
Film star Marcia Landon kills herself after acid is thrown in her face.
Her replacement starlet Claire Avery also receives a similar note telling her that she will be have the same fate befall her unless she leaves £5000 in an envelope on the film set. The Saint sets a trap to find out who is responsible for the horrible deed.
The Saint takes in Paris in the Spring, meeting with gorgeous Juliette Grillot, but the event takes a turn for the worse when Juliette's brother, Andre is accused of of murdering his business partner. Following the trail, the Saint comes upon counterfeit bearer bonds, a supposedly dead master counterfeiter, and Algerian rebels seeking support for the resistance against the French.
The Saint is played off against Rick Lansing, who uses his ill-gotten gains from running protection rackets to finance stage shows for his actress wife. Being impersonated in a caper to first blackmail Lansing, then the father of a female friend who used to be in partnership with Lansing, causes the Saint to find out who is using his name in vain.
Another adventure for the Saint begins whilst in Rome where he sees a local beggar deliberately run down. Adding to the mystery is a beautiful actress Theresa who poses as a beggar on the streets, in pursuit of a mysterious 'King of the Beggars' who takes a share of beggars' alms in return for protection.
Simon joins Theresa as a beggar to unmask the 'king' and bring all those responsible to justice.
The Saint accompanies Alan Uttershaw and a consignment of industrial diamonds to the airport to be handed to a security firm for delivery. However unbeknownst to either man the real security guards have been murdered and imposters take the £100,000 worth of diamonds.
Suspicion firstly falls on Gabriel Linnet, partner of the man to whom the diamonds were to be delivered but he is found murdered shortly after, and the tale becomes more twisted with a desperate wife, an intriguing secretary and a large insurance claim all requiring a great deal of persistence from the Saint to unravel.
The Saint becomes involved in yet another adventure as a journalist friend is murdered whilst working undercover within the newly-revived British Nazi Party.
The Saint teams up with Lady Valerie who was unwittingly used by the party leader, Luker, to lure the young man to his death. Valerie attempts to use the papers left by the dead man to blackmail the Nazi Party financial supporters but ends up getting herself and the Saint in a very hot predicament.
George Hackett loses out to Sam Purdell in the election of mayor of the town of Seatondean, and is convinced it is due to underhanded tactics. His public statements of such beliefs gets him killed, and the Saint, a friend of Sam's family, seeks out the crooked individuals involved who value money over integrity and life.
Professor Mueller is being forced to defect to the Russians with a satellite system he has invented in exchange for the release of his family, who are still stuck behind the iron curtain.
While being taken to a remote lake to be flown back to Russia, Mueller encounters the Saint, who decides to help the professor stay in the country, and ensure he be reunited with his wife and daughter.
When a church secretary Mrs. Yarmouth is played by confidence tricksters for church fund raising monies, the Saint and Mrs. Yarmouth's actress daughter set off in hot pursuit to give the bunco artists a show of their very own.
The Saint bumps into a young friend, Bill Fulton, who has captured the heart of the daughter of a self-righteous millionaire. Unimpressed with the man's smug airs and attitude toward his friend, the Saint wagers five thousand pounds with Vascoe that his exquisite art collection will be purloined within 4 days.
A trip to South America results in Simon having to deal with a corrupt Police Captain who also moonlights as an arms dealer.
The Saint helps to protect an old gold digger from his greedy sons.
A friend of Simon has suspicions her boss is being blackmailed.
Simon is persuaded to help a the wife of a deposed middle-eastern ruler, to recover and transport some of her jewels which are needed to fund a counter coup to regain control of their country.
Templar steps in to help when a young girl is framed for murder after being found next to the body of a recently killed prince.
The murder of a journalist leads Simon Templar to Italy, where he encounters a strange group of people devoted to the practices of ancient Rome
After saving a prime minister from South Africa from an attempted assassination, Simon decides to investigate the reasons behind it.
When a temperamental film star is abducted from the set , Simon tries to discover if the kidnapping is real, or just a publicity stunt.
When the body of a commonly disliked ship's captain is found dead on a beach, Templar tries to find out if he was murdered - Or even if he is actually really dead!