Peter O'Donnell

'''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. Provided by Wikipedia