Editing Leslie Charteris (section)

==Later life==
The adventures of ''The Saint'' were chronicled in nearly 100 books (about 50 published in the UK and US, with others published in France). Charteris himself stepped away from writing the books after ''[[The Saint in the Sun]]'' (1963). The next year, ''[[Vendetta for the Saint]]'' was published and while it was credited to Charteris, it was actually written by science fiction writer [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]]. Following ''Vendetta'' came a number of books adapting televised episodes, credited to Charteris, but written by others, although Charteris did collaborate on several Saint books in the 1970s. Charteris appears to have served in an editorial capacity for these later volumes. He also edited and contributed to ''The Saint Mystery Magazine'', a digest-sized publication. The final book in the Saint series was ''[[Salvage for the Saint]]'', published in 1983. Two additional books were published in 1997, a novelization of the [[The Saint (1997 film)|film loosely based on the character]], and an original novel published by "The Saint Club", a [[fan club]] that Charteris himself founded in the 1930s. Both books were written by [[Burl Barer]], who also wrote the definitive history on Charteris and ''The Saint''.

Charteris spent 55 years – 1928 to 1983 – as either writer of or custodian of Simon Templar's literary adventures, one of the longest uninterrupted spans of a single author in the history of mystery fiction, equalling that of [[Agatha Christie]], who wrote her novels and stories featuring detective [[Hercule Poirot]].

A comic book adaptation of ''The Saint'' was produced in Sweden from 1969 to 1991 with at least 170 stories produced. As part of the contract, all story ideas had to be approved by Charteris himself before the story was completed. Among the creators of these stories were writers [[Norman Worker]] and [[Donne Avenell]]; the latter also co-wrote the novels ''[[The Saint and the Templar Treasure]]'' and the novella collection ''[[Count on the Saint]]'', while Worker contributed to the novella collection ''[[Catch the Saint]]''.