The Saint plays with fire

Description:

[Variant titles: Prelude for war; The Saint and the sinners.) (from the back cover) How simon Templar handled a fire, led Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal up the garden path, bewildered the constabulary, eloped with a lady, incarcerated a Cabinet Minister and in many other ways bettered his lot without burning his fingers.

subjects: Fiction,  Saint (Fictitious character),  Private investigators,  The Saint (Ficitious character); swashbuckling Robin Hood,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Crime, fiction,  Saint (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, general

People: The Saint,  Patricia Holm,  Chief Inspector Teal,  Hoppy Uniatz (all four fictional)

Places: England