MODESTY BLAISE: LAST DAY IN LIMBO **LETTERED EDITION / SIGNED COPY**
Language: English
Published by Mysterious Press, N.Y., 1985
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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1st ed. LIMITED EDITION. 1 of 26 LETTERED copies [this being "H" ] SIGNED & LETTERED by O'Donnell on limitation page, in slipcase with dust jacket as issued. The 8th novel in the series. The character Modesty Blaise was created by O'Donnell for a comic strip in the early 1960s. BBC Radio produced a six-part Thirty Minute Theatre adaptation of the novel in 1978 starring Barbara Kellerman as Modesty Blaise with James Bolam as Willie Garvin and Richard Vernon as Sir Gerald Tarrant. "Maude Tiller, one of the few female agents in Sir Gerald Tarrant's secret service, is miserable. Her last assignment involved her having to submit to sexually degrading treatment by Paxero, the man she had been sent to spy on. And she hadn't even learned anything about the rich and enigmatic Paxero to justify the disgusting things she had let herself be subjected to. Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin discover how their good friend Maude has been mistreated, and they decide to teach Paxero a lesson. But when they break into his villa on the outskirts of Geneva they unexpectedly find a Breguet watch that was a gift from Modesty to Danny Chavasse, a very close friend of Modesty's. Everyone thought Danny had died when a cruise ship sank two years ago along with some 30 other people, but finding his watch indicates that Danny's fate was not as simple as that. This is the start of the journey that leads to Limbo, Paxero's secret and hidden plantation in the jungles of Guatemala. Limbo is a bizarre community led by Paxero's domineering aunt Benita, farmed by slaves, very special slaves, rich and famous men and women who have been selected by Aunt Benita and kidnapped and will now spend the rest of their lives at hard labour, watched over by armed Special guards. The "last day in Limbo" occurs when Paxero decides to shut the plantation down, and orders the guards to kill all of the slaves -- who now include Modesty, who has let herself be captured so as to infiltrate Limbo. Modesty leads a slave uprising, and Willie and Maude arrive just in time, after having hacked their way through the jungle. A final battle ensues, with Paxero and his heavily armed guards holed up in the big house, waiting for reinforcements to arrive by aircraft." -- Wikipedia entry.…
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- Title
- MODESTY BLAISE: LAST DAY IN LIMBO **LETTERED EDITION / SIGNED COPY**
- Author
- O'Donnell, Peter
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Book Type
- Limited / Lettered Edition
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 089296104X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892961047
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Limited Edition, Mystery and Crime, SIGNED
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