Peter O'Donnell — A Taste for Death

London, Souvenir Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Peter O'Donnell's 'A Taste For Death', part of the Modesty Blaise series. The fourth novel to feature, O'Donnell's heroine, Modest Blaise. Featuring the return of the villain Gabriel, previously seen in the first book in the series, this novel is full of adventure, action and dangerous altercations. Debuting in the Evening Standard in 1963 Modesty Blaise was originally a comic strip, written by O'Donnell and illustrated by Jim Holdaway. Modest Blaise is a talented young woman, with a criminal past, who ends up on a series of action filled adventures with her sidekick Willie Garvin. Aside from the comic strip, Blaise featured in a total of eleven novels and two short story collections. Peter O'Donnell was a British writer of mysteries and comic strips. Though best known for his Modesty Blaise series, he was also a award winning gothic romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. In original cloth binding, held in an unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and also to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the extremities. Dustwrapper is smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, resulting in some minor chipping to the the tail. Sunning to the spine. Rubbing to the joints, and to the extremities. Small tear to the rear of the wrap, to the tail, no more than 0.25 cm. Some minor offsetting internally to the wrap. Internally, formly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.