This seventh novel in the Modesty Blaise series will not fail to please any of Modesty's innumerable fans. Modesty and her partner, Willie Garvin, are hot on the trail of a captured British Intelligence agent, but when they confront the agent's bizarre captors--a criminal tycoon, a genteel lady assassin, two inscrutable Chinese killers, and the invincibe Mr. Sexton, the world's premier combatant--even Modesty begins to doubt that she can succeed in this operation. Her task is further complicated when Willie's girlfriend and ...
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This seventh novel in the Modesty Blaise series will not fail to please any of Modesty's innumerable fans. Modesty and her partner, Willie Garvin, are hot on the trail of a captured British Intelligence agent, but when they confront the agent's bizarre captors--a criminal tycoon, a genteel lady assassin, two inscrutable Chinese killers, and the invincibe Mr. Sexton, the world's premier combatant--even Modesty begins to doubt that she can succeed in this operation. Her task is further complicated when Willie's girlfriend and a young pilot also are taken hostage. Their situation seems hopeless until the Silver Mistress appears, bringing this thrilling saga to an astonishing climax.
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None. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A first edition copy of O'Donnell's exciting novel, 'The Silver Mistress', one of the Modesty Blaise series. The seventh novel to feature O'Donnell's heroine Modesty Blaise. Featuring nuns, a kidnapping, and the head of the secret service, as with all of the Modesty Blaise series, this novel is certainly action packed, and full of adventure. Debuting in the Evening Standard in 1963 Modesty Blaise was originally a comic strip, written by O'Donnell and illustrated by Jim Holdaway. Modest Blaise is a talented young woman, with a criminal past, who ends up on a series of action filled adventures with her sidekick Willie Garvin. Aside from the comic strip, Blaise featured in a total of eleven novels and two short story collections. Peter O'Donnell was a British writer of mysteries and comic strips. Though best known for his Modesty Blaise series, he was also a award winning gothic romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. In original cloth binding, and held in a unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart, with some minor shelfwear. Slight rubbing to the extremities. Slight spotting to the topedge. Minor spotting to the front and rear endpaper. Dustwrapper is very smart, again with only a minor amount of shelfwear. Some spotting to the front and rear flyleaf. Small tide mark, internally to the wrap, to the tail of the spine, as well as some spotting. Slight agetoning to the head of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine.
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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, BEING #275 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND BY ILLUSTRATOR ENRIQUE ROMERO. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like slipcase. We have no idea why this is numbered 275 when there were only supposed to be 200. A Modesty Blaise adventure.
