 Barer writes that neither Charteris nor Lee were particularly happy with the final manuscript, although Charteris did "copious rewrites".Breaking a pattern he had maintained for nearly 40 years, Charteris chose not to submit "Bet on the Saint" to his longtime British publishers, Hodder & Stoughton.Instead, he submitted it solely to Doubleday, the company that ran The Crime Club imprint which had published the first US editions of every Saint book since 1928.