Pieces of Modesty [SEP] series
Pieces of Modesty
Pieces of Modesty is a short story collection by Peter O'Donnell featuring his action heroine, Modesty Blaise, first published in 1972. It was O'Donnell's first such collection of stories (he would publish a second, "Cobra Trap", decades later).
The stories featured in this collection are:
1. "A Better Day to Die"
2. "The Giggle-Wrecker"
3. "I Had a Date with Lady Janet"
4. "A Perfect Night
hardback covers, and originally concluding with a reprint of "Cobra Trap" in 2006. Souvenir subsequently gained the rights to the short story collection "Pieces of Modesty" and issued their reprint of that book in March 2010, with a new cover design based on the original hardback cover from the first Modesty novel, at which point all the Blaise books fell under the same UK publisher for the first time.
In 2008, Penguin Books of India reprinted the full series.
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