Dead Man's Handle
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| 1986 paperback edition | |
| Author | Peter O'Donnell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Modesty Blaise |
| Genre(s) | Spy novel |
| Publisher | Souvenir Press |
| Released | 3 October 1985 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 240 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-285-62702-3 (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | The Night of Morningstar |
| Followed by | Cobra Trap |
Dead Man's Handle is the title of a 1985 action-adventure/spy novel written by Peter O'Donnell. It was the twelfth and final full-length novel chronicling the adventures of O'Donnell's comic strip creation, Modesty Blaise. (Notably, the 1986 paperback edition by Pan Books is one of the only times the comic strip version of the character appeared on the cover of a novel.) Although O'Donnell continued to write the comic strip, he did not write any further Modesty Blaise literature until the 1996 volume, Cobra Trap, which consisted of short stories.
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| The Modesty Blaise series by Peter O'Donnell |
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| Books Modesty Blaise (1965) | Sabre-Tooth (1966) | I, Lucifer (1967) | A Taste for Death (1969) | The Impossible Virgin (1971) | Pieces of Modesty (1972) | The Silver Mistress (1973) | Last Day in Limbo (1976) | Dragon's Claw (1978) | The Xanadu Talisman (1981) | The Night of Morningstar (1982) | Dead Man's Handle (1985) | Cobra Trap (1996) |
| Films Modesty Blaise (1966) | Modesty Blaise (1982) | My Name is Modesty (2003) |
