Dead Man's Handle
Hardcover first edition, 1985, Souvenir Press | |
| Author | Peter O'Donnell |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Modesty Blaise |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
| Publisher | Souvenir Press |
Publication date | 3 October 1985 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 240 (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-285-62702-3 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 13123492 |
| Preceded by | The Night of Morningstar |
| Followed by | Cobra Trap |
Dead Man's Handle is the title of a 1985 action-adventure and spy novel written by English writer Peter O'Donnell. It was the eleventh and final full-length novel chronicling the adventures of O'Donnell's comic strip creation, Modesty Blaise. Although O'Donnell continued to write the comic strip, he did not write any further Modesty Blaise prose until the 1996 volume, Cobra Trap, which consisted of short stories. The opening chapters of the novel are set prior to the novel and comic strip and constitute the "origin story" of Blaise's partner, Willie Garvin.