Adventurer, spy, smuggler, racketeer and all-round bad girl - that's Modesty Blaise! Created by best-selling author Peter O'Donnell, Modesty's classic adventures thrilled Evening Standard readers for over twenty years!

Modesty and her partner, Willie Garvin, head to New Orleans for a holiday... but stumble onto a plan for murder and blackmail in The Gallows Bird! Also in this collection, Modesty investigates a fatal family in The Bluebeard Affair, an old friend is kidnapped in The Wicked Gnomes, and there's trouble in the jungle in The Iron God! Plus an exclusive look at censored Gallows Bird strips and Enric Romero's sketchbook!

Contents:

• The Bluebeard Affair (from 1972-73)
• The Gallows Bird (from 1973)
• The Wicked Gnomes (from 1973)
• The Iron God (from 1973-74)

All artwork by Enric Badia Romero