Peter O'Donnell

Peter O'Donnell
Born(1920-04-11)11 April 1920
Lewisham, London, England
Died3 May 2010(2010-05-03) (aged 90)
NationalityBritish
AreaWriter
PseudonymMadeleine Brent
Notable works
Modesty Blaise
AwardsRoNA Award
http://www.modestyblaiseltd.com

Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also a 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 of the Romantic Novelists' Association.