Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris

Books for Sale We have preconfigured a personalised search for this title When you see the results page, you can change the 'sort by' list to most expensive first or see the links on the right to narrow your search - thank you Buy this book at abebooks

SYNOPSIS THERE were a few people — a very few — within his tight circle of friends and almost astronomical orbit of acquaintances, for whom the Saint would do practically anything. Including even things which under any other auspices would have excited him to violent and voluble revolt. One addiction that he especially despised was the fad for antiques. He could admire and love an old house for its own sake, but he was incapable of understanding anyone who would build a house today in good or bad imitation of the architecture of a bygone age. He could respect the furnishings of a genuine old house when they were its natural contemporaries, without necessarily wanting to live with them himself ; but he could only wax sarcastic about dislocated decorators, professional or amateur, who put period furniture in a steel-and-glass skyscraper apartment.