Peter O'Donnell 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.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, novelist, writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- April 11, 1920
- Died
- May 3, 2010
