 Published more than a quarter century after Teal's literary debut, this was one of the few occasions in which Charteris acknowledged the passing of time in the Saint books, as he otherwise depicted Templar as an ageless hero.Teal is persuaded out of retirement in "Le Saint contre les Cagoules Grises" (one of the many French-language Saint novels published in the late 1950s–1960s and based upon one of the American comic strips) to help the Saint battle the Grey Hoods.Teal later returned in the 1975 collection "Catch the Saint", which featured two novellas set prior to the Second World War.