Leslie Charteris on What the Well Dressed Man is Wearing

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Leslie Charteris on What the Well Dressed Man is Wearing 2015-03-03T20:20:04-05:00 willduquette

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Golter’s head snapped round as though it had been jerked by an invisible wire. He had heard nothing of the arrival of the man who now stood over him, whose gentle, drawling voice had broken into his meditations far more shatteringly than any explosion could have done. He saw a tall, trim, lean figure in a grey fresco suit of incredible perfection, with a soft grey felt hat whose wide brim shaded pleasant blue eyes. This man might have posed for any illustration of the latest and smartest effort of Savile Row in the way of gents’ natty outfitting—that is, if he could have been persuaded to discard the automatic pistol, which is not generally considered to form an indispensable adjunct to What the Well-Dressed Man will Wear this Season.

— Leslie Charteris, The Saint Closes the Case

I persist in thinking that the Saint is Bertie Wooster’s evil cousin…perhaps one of Aunt Agatha’s brood.

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