jiml@uwmacc.UUCP (12/17/84)
As of last summer, I've seen 11 Modesty Blaise books by Peter O'Donnell, typically imported from England, and thus hard to find outside specialty stores. My best luck finding them is at combined SF/comic/used book stores. The novels and comics strips share a common background, but tell different stories. Some newspapers carry the strip, such as the Detroit Free Press. Four volumes collecting some of the rarer strips are currently available; try a good comic dealer. Its rumored that the entire series of strips will be reprinted here starting next year! Novels that I recall, in roughly chronological order: Modesty Blaise Sabretooth I, Lucifer A Taste for Death The Impossible Virgin The Silver Mistress Last Day in Limbo Dragons Claw The Xanadu Talisman Night of Morningstar There is also a short story collection: Pieces of Modesty My personal favorite is `Last Day in Limbo'; any other opinions? Jim Leinweber UUCP: ...!{allegra,ihnp4,seismo,...}!uwvax!uwmacc!jiml ARPA: uwmacc!jiml@wisc-rsch.arpa phone: (608) 262-8623 post: MACC, UW-Madison; 1210 W. Dayton St.; Madison, Wi, 53706