Other editions of book The Saint Vs. Scotland Yard

Originally published in 1932. Consists of three novella-length stories: The Inland Revenue, The Million Pound Day, and The Melancholy Journey of Mr. Teal. Here The Saint has a girl-friend/confidante/helper named Patricia, and two opponents: a vicious unknown criminal called The Scorpion, and the well-meaning but inept detectives of London's Metropolitan Police Force.

The story involves blackmail, drugs, and illicit love letters, murder. Simon Templar picks up the thread of his long-standing battle with Claude Augustus Teal, the gum-chewing Chief Inspector of the C. I. D. Why Inspector Teal objects to the way the Saint takes things into his own hands, making there by a large profit is a mystery to the Saint. Particularly when one of those he takes into his own hands is a man known as the Scorpion...