The Persistent Parasites

The Persistent Parasites are the three ex wives of Waldo Oddington (Cec Linder) a tycoon in the French Riviera. He now wants an easy and healthy lifestyle.

They have been invited to meet young Nadine who he plans to marry. Simon Templar is also there and there seems to be an attempt made on Waldo's life.

The second attempt succeeds, Waldo is dead. The Saint learns that Waldo had little money but had a huge life insurance to his name. Waldo was worth more dead than alive and it is likely that one of the wives or Waldo's nephew was the culprit.

In essence this is an episode of the Saint as a murder mystery and not a very good one. Templar spars with police chief Colonel Latignant which is more interesting than the story itself. I thought even the resolution was a bit rubbish.

Based on the original story,'The Reluctant Nudist,'this episode might have been helped by some nudity to just enliven the proceedings! The Saint ventures into Agatha Christie dining room murder mystery territory and it's all a bit dull really with only a couple of half hearted fist fights to add any action.

Simon is invited to an old friend's wedding along with his three ex-wives,the friend is murdered and it's up to our hero to figure out which ex-wife stood to gain from this. A fairly pedestrian plot plods along to the end as the suspects are gathered together and all is revealed. Just the identity of the killer and not any nudity sad to say as like I mentioned before,it might have made things a tad more interesting.