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Author:	Peter O'Donnell
Title:	Modesty Blaise
Publisher:	Doubleday & Company
Country:	USA
Date:	1965
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	823.914
Genre:	Fiction, Thriller
Total Editions:	4
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Book Club edition of first American edition. A novelization of O'Donnell's version of the screenplay for the film Modesty Blaise (released in 1966), and based upon O'Donnell's comic strip, which began in 1963. First of a series of novels O'Donnell would write concurrently with the comic strip until the late 1990s. 254 pages.

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23skidoo 13th Nov 2020		The Doubleday edition of course is the book John Travolta is seen reading throughout "Pulp Fiction". Quentin Tarantino wanted to do a Modesty Blaise film but so far he hasn't gotten around to it, though he was involved in the distribution of a direct-to-video prequel called "My Name is Modesty" that was made in the mid-2000s.



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. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



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. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise - Pan - Paperback - UK (1966)

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Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise - Pan - Paperback - International - 0330104748 (1975)

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Peter O'Donnell - Modesty Blaise - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330104748 (1972)