Leslie Charteris-RARE Vintage Signed Index Card (Author & Screenwriter \"..) For Sale

5x3 Vintage index card signed \"To Leonard J. Appel with best wishes Leslie Charteris 83/2/24 adding a sketch\" in red ballpoint ink. Excellent
(1907-1993) Leslie Charteris was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of his hero Simon Templar, alias \"The Saint\".
Charteris relocated to the United States in 1932, where he continued to publish short stories and also became a writer for Paramount Pictures, working on the George Raft film Midnight Club. Charteris also wrote scripts for Alex Raymond\'s newspaper comic Secret Agent X-9 from 1935 to 1936. One story was drawn by Raymond, and the other two by Raymond\'s successor Charles Flanders.
However, Charteris was excluded from permanent residency in the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that prohibited immigration for persons of \"50% or greater\" Oriental blood. As a result, Charteris was continually forced to renew his six-month temporary visitor visa. Eventually, an act of Congress personally granted his daughter and the right of permanent residence in the United States, with eligibility for naturalization, which he later completed in 1946.
In 1936, Charteris was a passenger on the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg.[10] In America, The Saint became a radio series starring Vincent Price. In the 1940s, Charteris, besides continuing to write The Saint stories, scripted the Sherlock Holmes radio series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. In 1941, Charteris appeared in a Life photographic adaptation of a short story of The Saint, with himself playing the Saint.
Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.