Peter O'Donnell (1920–2010)
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Peter O'Donnell was born in London on April 11, 1920. During World War II, he served in a signal regiment in the British Army, assigned to France, Persia (now Iran), Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy and Greece. He began drawing comic strips for children as a teenager, and after the war he wrote a visa mer number of different strips including Dr. No, Garth, and Romeo Brown on a freelance basis. He created the Modesty Blaise comic strip, which was published in The London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 20 Modesty Blaise novels including Sabre-Tooth, A Taste for Death and The Night of the Morningstar, two short stories collections, and a play entitled Mr. Fothergill's Murder. He wrote a series of 19th-century romance novels under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. He also wrote for television, film, women's magazines and children's papers. He died on May 3, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.
Foto taget av: Peter O'Donnell = Madeleine Brent
Verk av Peter O'Donnell
De mörka änglarna 4 exemplar
Min Träff med Lady Janet, Salamander Fyra 3 exemplar
Glädjedödaren 2 exemplar
Wild Boar [Strip] 2 exemplar
Gamle Alex 2 exemplar
Highland Witch [Strip] 2 exemplar
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Death Trap [Strip] 2 exemplar
Agentti X9 Nro 1 2 exemplar
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The Vampire Of Malvescu [Strip] 2 exemplar
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Yellowstone Booty [Strip] 2 exemplar
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The Children Of Lucifer [Strip] 1 exemplar
Modesty Blaise hopeajumalatar 1 exemplar
The Last Aristocrat [Strip] 1 exemplar
X-lukemisto esittää:Modesty Blaise 1 exemplar
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Agent X9 Specialalbum 2014 1 exemplar
The Death Symbol [Strip] 1 exemplar
Modesty Blaise: De mörka änglarna 1 exemplar
Agent X9 Specialalbum 1996 1 exemplar
The Killing Game [Strip] 1 exemplar
Special-Comics, Band 4: Modesty Blaise, Band 2: Der Verräter Perfekte Sekretärinnen (1982) 1 exemplar
The Zombie [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Green-eyed Monster [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Lady Killers [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Girl In The Iron Mask [Strip] 1 exemplar
De mörka änglarna [serie] 1 exemplar
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Kobrafällan 1 exemplar
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The Million Dollar Game [Strip] 1 exemplar
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Lady In The Dark [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Night of Morning Star 1 exemplar
The Special Orders [Strip] 1 exemplar
In The Beginning [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Hell Makers [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Gabriel Set-up [Strip] 1 exemplar
Mister Sun [Strip] 1 exemplar
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The Gallows Bird [Strip] 1 exemplar
Live Bait [Strip] 1 exemplar
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The Hanging Judge [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Wicked Gnomes [Strip] 1 exemplar
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Modesty Blaise, volume 3, number 2, 1983 1 exemplar
Salamander Fyra 1 exemplar
En god gärning 1 exemplar
The Modesty Blaise Companion 1 exemplar
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Top Traitor [Strip] 1 exemplar
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Tvilsom arv 1 exemplar
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La marque du Loup 1 exemplar
Tregaron's Daughter (abridged) 1 exemplar
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Arvingen 1 exemplar
Those About to Die 1 exemplar
Moonraker 1 exemplar
Villkatt 1 exemplar
A pillangós lány 1 exemplar
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Il tempo della fortuna 1 exemplar
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Modesty Blaise - Volume 4 1 exemplar
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The Jericho Caper [Strip] 1 exemplar
Fraser's Story [Strip] 1 exemplar
Ivory Dancer [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Return Of The Mammoth [Strip] 1 exemplar
Plato's Republic [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Sword Of The Bruce [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Double Agent [Strip] 1 exemplar
Samantha And The Cherub [Strip] 1 exemplar
Milord [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Girl From The Future [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Big Mole [Strip] 1 exemplar
Fiona [Strip] 1 exemplar
Walkabout [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Young Mistress [Strip] 1 exemplar
Our Friend Maude [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Alternative Man [Strip] 1 exemplar
A Present For The Princess [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Grim Joker [Strip] 1 exemplar
Guido The Jinx [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Killing Distance [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Aristo [Strip] 1 exemplar
Ripper Jax [Strip] 1 exemplar
Maori Contract [Strip] 1 exemplar
Honeygun [Strip] 1 exemplar
Durango [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Murder Frame [Strip] 1 exemplar
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Death In Slow Motion [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Galley Slaves [Strip] 1 exemplar
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The Killing Ground [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Red Gryphon [Strip] 1 exemplar
Take-over [Strip] 1 exemplar
The War-lords Of Phoenix [Strip] 1 exemplar
Willie The Djinn [Strip] 1 exemplar
Death Of A Jester [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Stone Age Caper [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Puppet Master [Strip] 1 exemplar
With Love From Rufus [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Bluebeard Affair [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Iron God [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Balloonatic [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Greenwood Maid [Strip] 1 exemplar
Those About To Die [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Vanishing Dollybirds [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Junk-men [Strip] 1 exemplar
The Golden Frog [Strip] 1 exemplar
Eve And Adam [Strip] 1 exemplar
Brethren Of Blaise [Strip] 1 exemplar
Dossier On Pluto [Strip] 1 exemplar
Garvin's Travels [Strip] 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- O'Donnell, Peter
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- O'Donnell, Peter
- Andra namn
- Brent, Madeleine
O'Donnell, Peter - Födelsedag
- 1920-11-14
- Avled
- 2010-05-03
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
- Särskiljningsnotis
- Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 313
- Även av
- 18
- Medlemmar
- 7,299
- Popularitet
- #3,350
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 206
- ISBN
- 513
- Språk
- 11
- Favoritmärkt
- 14
It’s a romantic adventure story about young Lucy, abandoned in an orphanage in China, who finds herself sucked into a bizarre English feud between two neighbouring families over lost Chinese treasure. There are some vey effective fish-out-of-water moments for Lucy when she first arrives in England. The plot twists are pretty absurd, as hidden relatives turn up everywhere and Lucy returns to China to skip through the Boxer Rebellion, and yet I kept on being sucked back into it to find out what would happen next. I’m sure that the Chinese details are as wobbly as I know the English historical details are; but I admit that I was entertained anyway.… (mer)