His battles with Rayt Marius mirror the 'four rounds with Carl Petersen' of Hugh 'Bull-dog' Drummond. (For example, 'Arizona' in The Saint Goes West has Templar planning to kill a Nazi scientist.)ĭuring the 1920s and early 1930s, the Saint is fighting European arms dealers, drug runners, and white slavers while based in his London home. Several adventures centre on his intention to kill. In the early books, Templar refers to this as murder, although he considers his actions justified and righteous, a view usually shared by partners and colleagues. The Saint has a dark side, as he is willing to ruin the lives of the 'ungodly,' and even kill them, if he feels that more innocent lives can be saved. A term used by Templar to describe his acquisitions is ' boodle,' a term also applied to the short story collection. 'He claims he's a Robin Hood,' says one victim, 'but to me he's just a robber and a hood.' Robin Hood appears to be one inspiration for the character Templar stories were often promoted as featuring 'The Robin Hood of modern crime,' and this phrase to describe Templar appears in several stories. Templar's targets include corrupt politicians, warmongers, and other low life. In the books, his income is derived from the pockets of the 'ungodly' (as he terms those who live by a lesser moral code than his own), whom he is given to 'socking on the boko.' There are references to a 'ten percent collection fee' to cover expenses when he extracts large sums from victims, the remainder being returned to the owners, given to charity, shared among Templar's colleagues, or some combination of those possibilities. Presumably, his acquaintance with Bronx sidekick Hoppy Uniatz dates from this period. Meet the Tiger) there are references which suggest that he had spent some time in the United States battling Prohibition villains. His origin remains a mystery he is explicitly British, but in early books (e.g. He is described as 'a buccaneer in the suits of Savile Row, amused, cool, debonair, with hell-for-leather blue eyes and a saintly smile'. This is used as the logo of the books, the films, and the three TV series. Blessed with boyish humour, he makes humorous and off-putting remarks and leaves a ' calling card' at his 'crimes,' a stick figure of a man with a halo over his head. such as 'Sebastian Tombs' or 'Sugarman Treacle'.

Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like figure known as the Saint – plausibly from his initials, but the exact reason for his nickname is unknown (although the reader is told that he was given it at the age of nineteen).

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