Leslie Charteris on Getting Your Goat

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 8:00 am by willduquette

Leslie Charteris on Getting Your Goat 2015-03-11T18:51:32-05:00 willduquette

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A tinge of old beetroot suffused Mr Teal’s rubicund complexion. To say that his goat was completely and omnipotently got conveys nothing at all. In the last ten minutes his goat had been utterly annihilated, and the remains spirited away to the exact point in space where (so Einstein says) eternity changes its socks and starts back on the return journey. He was as comprehensively de-goated as a man can be.

— Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard.

“Mr. Teal” is one C.E. Teal, aka, Detective Inspector Claude Eustace Teal, the rotund gum-chewing fellow most usually tasked with bringing the Saint to book. The Saint was the goat-getter, naturally.

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