Modesty Blaise Creator Dies

Peter O’Donnell, creator of the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise, has died. The strip is better known in Britain than it is here, probably because of stuff like this: “Indeed, one of her favourite ploys, when the villains came to her apartment or hotel room to ‘get’ her, as they always did, was to answer the door completely naked and use the precious moment granted to her by their involuntary open-mouthed admiration of her undraped splendours to knock them all cold.” O’Donnell was 90.