Books by Jilly's father!

From my friend Jilly in the UK...who informs me of her father's books. I've heard of these and now will have to search them out and read! Cool! Off to the book lists!
Michelle



Hi Michelle

I've spent most of my day up to my eyes in spiders, slugs and snails in the shed at the bottom of my garden which I'm trying to clear out! So it was a nice relief to come to friends and read some posts .... A return to sanity!

Thanks for showing an interest about Dad ... but I'm thinking that they're maybe not the sort of books that you would naturally go for. They're written for 2 particular commercial markets,

One is the Gothic Novel market and he writes those under the pen name of Madeline Brent.

The other books he writes are these Modesty Blaise books below which he writes under his own name of Peter O'Donnell.

Amazon.com sell many of his books, the Modesty Blaise Novels and the Madeline Brent Novels are listed there. There are also a lot of his comic strip books which are published by Titan.


Modesty Blaise Books

Books:

1965 Modesty Blaise

1966 Sabre-Tooth

1967 I, Lucifer

1969 A Taste for Death (not to be confused with P. D. James')

1971 The Impossible Virgin

1972 Pieces of Modesty (short stories)

1973 The Silver Mistress

1976 Last Days in Limbo

1978 Dragon's Claw

1981 The Xanadu Talisman

1982 The Night of Morningstar

1985 Dead Man's Handle

1996 Cobra Trap

Movie:

1966 Modesty Blaise (starring Monica Vitti)

2004 My Name is Modesty (starring Alexandra Staden)


Newspapers:

The comic strip started in 1963 in the London Evening Standard, and

is also carried in

The Detroit Free Press (Detroit, USA)

The Bombay Samachar (Bombay, India)

The Telegraph (Calcutta, India)

The West Australian (Perth, Australia)

Express (Trinidad and Tobago)


Other books written by Peter O'Donnell

Screenplay:

Mr. Fothergill's Murder (first performed in Hull 1982)

Books written by Peter O'Donnell under the name Madeleine Brent

Tregaron's daughter (ISBN 0449243915) 1971

Moonraker's Bride (ISBN 0449235947) 1973

Kirkby's changeling (ISBN 0285621785) 1975

(Alt. title) Stranger at Wildings (ISBN 0449230856) 1975

Merlin's Keep (ISBN 0449238105) 1977

Capricorn Stone (ISBN 044920149X) 1979

The Long Masquerade (ISBN 0449204847) 1981

A Heritage of Shadows (ISBM 0449206432) 1983

Stormswift (ISBN 0449208117) 1984

Golden Urchin (ISBN 0449213897) 1986


There are a lot of websites, but you can either punch Peter O'Donnell into Google

or here are one or two sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O'Donnell

and

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

and

http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html


I do hope life is treating you well Michelle ..... bye for now,