Peter O'Donnell

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born

April 11, 1920 in Lewisham, London, England, The United Kingdom

died

May 03, 2010

gender

male

website

http://www.modestyblaiseltd.com/index.html

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Comics & Graphic Novels

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.

http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.

To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.

In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.

Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of...more

combine editions
Books by Peter O'Donnell

Average rating: 3.94 · 1,859 ratings · 131 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Modesty Blaise (Modesty Blaise, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sabre-Tooth (Modesty Blaise #2) 3.94 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Taste for Death (Modesty Blaise, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	My rating:
	I, Lucifer (Modesty Blaise, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Silver Mistress (Modesty Blaise, #7) 4.03 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Impossible Virgin (Modesty Blaise, #5) 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Last Day in Limbo (Modesty Blaise, #8) 4.04 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Pieces of Modesty (Modesty Blaise, #6) by Peter O'Donnell, Press Mysterious 3.79 avg rating — 94 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Xanadu Talisman (Modesty Blaise, #10) 3.81 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Night of Morningstar (Modesty Blaise, #11) 3.87 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	My rating:

More books by Peter O'Donnell…

Series by Peter O'Donnell

Modesty Blaise (13 books)
by Peter O'Donnell

3.90 avg rating — 1,431 ratings

Modesty Blaise Story Strips (21 books)
by Peter O'Donnell, Enrique Romero (Illustrator), Jim Holdaway (Illustrator), Peter O' Donnell

4.09 avg rating — 326 ratings

Modesty Blaise stripovi (7 books)
by Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway (Illustrator), Davor Srića (Translator)

3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings

Quotes by Peter O'Donnell

“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]”
― Peter O'Donnell

tags: chronology , language , pop-culture , setting , slang , time

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