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Author:	Peter O'Donnell
Title:	Modesty Blaise
Publisher:	Pan
Country:	UK
Date:	1966
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Crime
Cat#:	X474
Total Editions:	4
First Published:	1965
Rating:	6.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Notes

'A' format 237pp plus ads. Film tie-in. First published in UK by Souvenir Press Ltd (1965)

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Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise - Doubleday & Company - Hardcover - USA (1965)

Comments and Reviews


23skidoo 10th Jun 2020		A few notes about this book. Peter O'Donnell created the comic strip upon which the film was based, and O'Donnell here novelizes his script for the film (I believe the first hardcover edition predates the film's release). The final movie deviates from O'Donnell's script, so there are quite a few differences in the book. On the plus side, the book sold so well that - concurrent with continuing to write the comic strip - O'Donnell wrote a dozen more Modesty Blaise books and in fact the comic strip outlasted the books by several years. Modesty Blaise aficionados debate whether or not the novels exist in the same continuity as the comic strips due to the books depicting Modesty a bit differently than the comics at times.



ppint. 29th Aug 2019		#1: "modesty blaise" (1965) (this novel) #2: "sabre-tooth" (1966), q.v. #3: "i, lucifer" (1967), q.v. #4: "a taste for death" (1969), q.v. #5: "the impossible virgin" (1971), q.v. #6: "pieces of modesty" (collection) (1972), q.v. #7: "the silver mistress" (1973), q.v. #8: "last day in limbo" (1976), q.v. #9: "dragon's claw" (1978), q.v. #10: "the xanadu talisman" (1981), q.v. #11: "the night of morningstar" (1982), q.v. #12: "dead man's handle" (1985), q.v. #13: " cobra trap" (collection) (1996), q.v.

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