At head of title: Modesty Blaise.

It includes bibliographical references.

Peter'O'Donnell began writing at the age o sixteen, when he sold his first story. He has lost count since then but thinks the tally reaches over a thousand short stories and novels. He also writes television and flim scripts. Born in 1921, he spent two years working on juvenille periodicals and served in the Territorial Army during World War II. He began writing strip cartoons-the best known of these are probably 'Garth' in the Daily Mirror and 'Tug Transom' in the Daily Sketch , 'Modesty Blaise' took him a year to create in the Evening Standard. The cartoon was an immediate sucess, soon syndicating in over forty countries, and the 'Modesty Blaise' series of novels followed.