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|title=Modesty Blaise - The Young Mistress

|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=May 2014

|summary=Three more welcome stories from the archives, but here featuring a slight shortage in the surprise department.

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[[:Category:Peter O'Donnell|Modesty Blaise]] is slowly becoming like an old flame of mine – just popping back into my life every few months to regale an adventure, have a catch-up and be on her way. This latest fleeting visit shows Modesty, the most ironically-named brunette in the world of solving crime, having old flames of her own – although she calls them 'escorts'. They're prevalent in the first and title story, where her doctor lover has a patient with whip marks, which leads into a full-blown action adventure regarding art forgeries. Her American 'escort' wants to replace the doctor, but has to wait for a story all of his own, when his own prize racehorse is a target for criminals. And in the third story there are a lot of returning characters – but not all are as they might at first appear…