Peter O'Donnell was born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, UK. He was interested in writing as a child, and began writing professionally at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the Royal Signals Corps, and was stationed in Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece. After the war, he worked as a comic strip writer, and scripted the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel Dr. No. He was most famous for inventing the character Modesty Blaise, an undercover agent who first appeared in comic strips in 1963. In 1965, he published his first novel, Modesty Blaise, which was based on the screenplay he had written for the motion picture of the same name. He also wrote short stories, plays, television and film scripts, and nine romance novels published under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. In 2001, he retired from writing. He passed away on 03 May 2010.
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Merlin's Keep
10 editions - first published in 1977 -
Moonraker's Bride
9 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow -
Tregaron's daughter
8 editions - first published in 1971 -
The Capricorn Stone
8 editions - first published in 1979 -
A heritage of shadows
6 editions - first published in 1983 -
Stormswift
6 editions - first published in 1984 -
The long masquerade
6 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow -
Golden Urchin
5 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow -
Kirkby's changeling
4 editions - first published in 1975 -
Stranger at Wildings
3 editions - first published in 1976 Checked out -
Meg, La Pelirroja
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Golden Urchin
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Tregaron's Daughter
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Wilde Blume Gluck
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
A filha do pescador
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Tregaron's daughter
1 edition - first published in 1971 Checked out
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