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All were illustrated and eight pages long. The artists were uncredited, though the front page illustrations are signed by
Holdaway for the first five (and the last looks like Holdaway's work). The interior illustrations appear to be by a different artist.
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who died in 1970. That edition was never produced. Holdaway's illustrations for the stories exist and have been reprinted in various magazines. The stories were originally published as newspaper inserts in
Australia in 1970, in a weekly called
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The stories in this collection predate the publication of the book by several years. In the 1960s they were planned for publication in a book that would have been illustrated by O'Donnell's comic strip artist,
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issued the book's first and (to date) only hardcover edition. In the 2000s, Souvenir Press began a series of reprints of the
Modesty Blaise books, and after acquiring the rights, re-issued
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In the early 1980s, a dramatic reading of the story "I Had a Date with Lady Janet" was released on cassette tape by
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in March 2010 with new cover artwork based on the original hardback edition of the first
Modesty Blaise novel (as no first-edition hardback was published of
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which O'Donnell wrote concurrent with his book series. "I Had a Date with Lady Janet" is distinguished as the only
Modesty Blaise tale to be told in the
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