Modesty Blaise is working as right-hand-woman for a casino owner in Tangiers, Morocco, being his eyes and ears at the tables, supervising staff, and working as a croupier if needed. When an armed gang ...

Modesty Blaise - I, Lucifer and Dragon's Claw by Peter O'Donnell Souvenir Press both £8.99, pp318 The world of Modesty Blaise is a cat's cradle of action and plot. A strikingly attractive heroine, ...

Modesty Blaise: The Xanadu Talisman and The Silver Mistress by Peter O'Donnell Souvenir Press £8.99 each, pp288 and 254 Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel there was ...

For a vidpic filmed in 18 days by a helmer hired scarcely a week before the start of principal photography, "My Name Is Modesty" isn't half-bad. This mildly diverting time-killer focuses on the early ...

Modesty Blaise was my secret self the year I was 15, the subject of ardent daydreams and the first female character I encountered who was truly in charge of something other than a hospital ward, or a ...

After reviewing 2004's My Name is Modesty and listening to two Modesty Blaise radio adventures, I decided to take a look at the 1966 film, in spite of its bad reputation. The premise and core plot ...

Peter O’Donnell, the British writer who created Modesty Blaise, the sexy, resourceful action hero who was a distaff answer to James Bond, first as a comic strip character and later as the heroine of ...

She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and unusual ...