Dead Man's Handle

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Title Dead Man's Handle

1986 paperback edition
Author Peter O'Donnell
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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