Tags: Comics Creator.
Peter O’Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was a British writer of mysteries and of comic strips best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise a female action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent in 1978 his novel Merlin’s Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association.