Patricia Holm

Patricia Holm
The Saint character
Patricia Holm, as depicted on the cover of a 1980s reprint of Meet – The Tiger!
First appearanceMeet - The Tiger! (1928)
Last appearanceSaint Errant (1948)
Created byLeslie Charteris
Portrayed byJean Gillie (1943)
Eliza Dushku (2012)
Voiced byKim Thomson
In-universe information
GenderFemale
OccupationDetective
NationalityBritish

Patricia Holm is the name of a fictional character who appeared in the novels and short stories of Leslie Charteris between 1928 and 1948. She was the on-again, off-again girlfriend and partner of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and shared a number of his adventures. In addition, by the mid-1930s, Holm and Templar shared the same flat in London, although they were unmarried. Although such co-habitation between unmarried partners is commonplace today, it was rare, shocking (and in some areas, even illegal) in the 1930s. The two also appeared to have a somewhat "open" relationship, with Holm accepting (or, at least, tolerating) Templar's occasional dalliances with other women.

Charteris wrote Holm out of the series after 1948. A fleeting reference in the final novel credited to Charteris (1983's Salvage for the Saint) reveals that at some point in the past, Holm had left Templar.