posted: 20 January 2000
Twenty-four stories by Sax Rohmer were reprinted in Leslie Charteris' The
Saint Detective Magazine. Most of Rohmer's series detectives or
investigators were represented. Six of the stories featured Moris Klaw, the "Dream
Detective"; five others featured Bimbāshi Barūk of Egypt; and master illusionist
Bazarada (based on Rohmer's friend, Harry Houdini) appeared in yet another three stories.
Sir Denis Nayland Smith appeared twice, in "The Turkish Yataghan" (one of the
three Nayland Smith stories that do not include Fu Manchu) and again in "The Eyes of
Fu Manchu" (one of the three Fu Manchu short stories). Neville Kernaby and Abū
Tābah appeared in "The Death-Ring of Sneferu" and "Breath of Allah";
and Paul Harley appeared twice, in "House of Golden Death" and "The Black
Mandarin". All but two or three of the stories in the U.S. Saint also appeared in the British edition, which was under separate editorial control and was not simply a reprint of the U.S. edition. In the list below, U.S. dates are given on the left and the corresponding British dates on the right. Rohmer stories in the French and Dutch editions of The Saint, also independent of the U.S. edition, are noted on the pages devoted to those languages. In the U.S.,The Saint magazine was edited by Hans Stefan Santesson, with the close participation of Charteris himself. During its twelve-year run, the magazine had three different titles and three different publishers. It began as a quarterly with the Spring 1953 issue (v1#1) under the title The Saint Detective Magazine, and then ran on a bimonthly schedule through October 1958 (v10#4). With the November 1958 issue (v10#5) the title was changed to The Saint Mystery Magazine. There was a one-year hiatus after the August 1960 issue (v14#2), during which Charteris struggled to regain control of the magazine from a publisher with whose policies he disagreed. Publication resumed with the September 1961 issue (v15#1), with Charteris again in control. With the May 1966 issue (v23#5) the title was shortened to The Saint Magazine. The final issue in the twelve-year run was dated October 1967 (v25#6). One result of this checkered history is that there is no consistent relationship between cover date and volume-and-number, and the latter must be obtained from a published index or from the magazines themselves. (The title The Saint Magazine was revived for a brief three-issue run in 1984, but there was no editorial connection between that incarnation and Charteris' magazine. |
U.S. dates | Title | British dates |
Spring 1953 |
v1#1 | Murder Strikes at Lychgate [Bimbāshi Barūk of Egypt] |
December 1954 |
v1#2 |
January 1954 |
v1#5 | The Man Who Killed Blackbirds [Bimbāshi Barūk of Egypt] |
July 1955 |
v1#9 |
November 1954 |
v2#5 | The Laughing Buddha [Bimbāshi Barūk of Egypt] |
March 1955 |
v1#5 |
June 1955 |
v3#6 | The Smell of Dead Men [The Tragedies in the Greek Room, in The Dream Detective] |
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August 1955 |
v4#2 | The Potsherd of Anubis [The Dream Detective] |
December 1955 |
v2#2 |
October 1955 |
v4#4 | The Ivory Statue [The Dream Detective] |
April 1956 |
v2#6 |
December 1955 |
v4#6 | The Blue Rajah Diamond [The Dream Detective] |
September 1956 |
v2#11 |
August 1956 |
v6#2 | The Owl Hoots Twice [The Secret of Holm Peel] |
May 1957 |
v3#7 |
December 1956 |
v6#6 | Omar of Ispahān [Tales of Secret Egypt] |
October 1957 |
v3#12 |
April 1957 |
v7#4 | The Turkish Yataghan [Tales of East and West] |
January 1958 |
v4#3 |
September 1957 |
v8#3 | The Case of the Headless Mummies [The Dream Detective] |
August 1958 |
v4#10 |
April 1958 |
v9#4 | Limehouse Rhapsody [Salute to Bazarada] |
December 1958 |
v5#2 |
August 1958 |
v10#2 | Deadly Plot of Mr. Ko [Blue Anemones, in Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt] |
April 1959 |
v5#6 |
November 1958 |
v10#5 | Death in the King's Room [Salute to Bazarada] |
June 1959 |
v5#8 |
April 1959 |
v11#4 | The Death-Ring of Sneferu [Tales of Secret Egypt] |
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August 1959 |
v12#2 | House of Golden Death [Tales of Chinatown] |
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November 1959 |
v12#5 | Breath of Allah [Tales of Secret Egypt] |
January 1960 |
v6#2 |
September 1961 |
v15#1 | The Mummy of Cleopatra [Salute to Bazarada] |
May 1961 |
v7#3 |
May 1962 |
v16#1 | Spirit of the Black Hawk [Tales of East and West] |
March 1962 |
v8#1 |
January 1963 |
v18#1 | Jamaican Rose [R. E. Briney has noted that much of this story was reused in Chapter 5 of Virgin In Flames.] |
December 1962 |
v8#10 |
April 1963 |
v18#4 | Serpent Wind [Bimbāshi Barūk of Egypt] |
March 1963 |
v9#1 |
September 1964 |
v21#2 | Case of the Veil of Isis [The Dream Detective] |
September 1964 |
v10#7 |
January 1965 |
v21#5 | The Eyes of Fu Manchu [The Wrath of Fu Manchu] |
February 1965 |
v10#12 |
December 1965 |
v23#1 | The Black Mandarin [Tales of East and West] |
October 1965 |
v11#8 |
Information on the British Saint Detective Magazine is taken from Monthly Murders by Michael L. Cook (Greenwood Press, 1982). This index lacks data on the October 1959 issue (v5#11), so it is not known whether this issue contains a Rohmer story. |
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