A Taste for Death is the title of an action-adventure novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1969, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip several years earlier. It was the fourth novel to feature the character. It should not be confused with the mystery novel of the same title by P.D. James. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Souvenir Press. Peter ODonnell (born 1920), British cartoon writer and author and creator of Modesty Blaise. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Cover of the first Modesty Blaise novel. ... The genre of spy fiction — sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi — arose before World War I at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were formed. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... Peter ODonnell (born 1920), British cartoon writer and author and creator of Modesty Blaise. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Cover of the first Modesty Blaise novel. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. ...
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