The Silver Mistress
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 1975 paperback edition |
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| Author | Peter O'Donnell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Modesty Blaise |
| Genre(s) | Spy novel |
| Publisher | Souvenir Press |
| Released | 1973 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 254 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0285621122 |
| Preceded by | Pieces of Modesty |
| Followed by | Last Day in Limbo |
The Silver Mistress is the title of an action-adventure novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1973. It was the seventh book of adventures featuring O'Donnell's comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.
[edit] Plot summary
Sir Gerald Tarrant, the head of a secret service branch of the British government (which occasionally enlists the services of former crime boss-turned-crimebuster Modesty Blaise and her right-hand man, Willie Garvin) is abducted by Colonel Jim Straik. Straik stages an accident to make it look like Tarrant has died in a car crash. Straik tortures Tarrant to gain information that can be used for blackmail. Modesty meanwhile, becomes suspicious about the events surrounding Tarrant's accident. She discovers that Tarrant is not dead, but is being held at the Chateau Lancieux, a small castle standing among the foothills of the Pyrenees.
While attempting to sneak into the Chateau she and Willie are captured by Mr. Sexton. Sexton is Straik's muscleman. He is very strong, impossibly agile, and a martial arts expert. In the climax of the story, a nude, grease-covered Modesty, drowns him during hand-to-hand combat in the lake in the Lancieux Cave.
| The Modesty Blaise series by Peter O'Donnell |
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| Characters Modesty Blaise | Willie Garvin |
| Comic strip Modesty Blaise (1963-2002) |
| Books Modesty Blaise (1965) | Sabre-Tooth (1966) | I, Lucifer (1967) | A Taste for Death (1969) | The Impossible Virgin (1971) | Pieces of Modesty (1972 - short stories) | 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 - short stories) |
| Films Modesty Blaise (1966) | Modesty Blaise (1982) | My Name is Modesty (2003) |
