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First published by Crown Publishers Inc. (hardback) in 1951. This paperback edition published by Signet (883) in August 1951. Adam Knight was one of several pseudonyms used by Lawrence Lariar. Cover art not credited.

First published by Horwitz (Australia) and Signet (U.S.A.) in 1963. This third Signet printing (T4489) is undated but is circa 1971. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Published by Signet (T4455) in December 1970. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Originally published as "The Angels Fell" by Dodd, Mead & Co. (hardback) in 1950. This re-titled paperback edition published by Signet (833) in January 1951. Cover art by Barye Phillips. (love the way the woman manages to keep the cigarette in her mouth despite her surprise!!)

Published by Gold Medal (1018) in July 1960. Cover art is fantastic, but uncredited. EDIT: thanks to vintageillu for the art info - another McGinnis for the collection!

First published in 1966 - in the U.K. by Souvenir Press and in the U.S. by Doubleday (both in hardback). This Oxford University Press adaptation, intended for foreign students without a full English vocabulary, was published in 1980. Peter O'Donnell died yesterday, a month after his ninetieth birthday - so this is my small thank you to him, one of the more unusual items in my extensive Modesty Blaise collection, and one of the best visual interpretations of Modesty (by Andrew Farley), after Jim Holdaway and Enric Romero of course. Peter O'Donnell: 1920-2010.

First published by Gold Medal in 1956. This second printing (k1337) is dated August 1963. Cover art is uncredited (Lu Kimmel?)

Published by S.D. Frances in June 1951. Poor condition copy - lovely Heade cover art.

Published by New Fiction Press in August 1952. My copy is rather the worse for wear, but it's still one of my favourite Reginald Heade covers.

Published by Corgi (ISBN: 0552113093) in 1986. Back cover blurb: "Alec Worthington, the C.I.A. man in Prague, has suddenly found the climate disagreeable. He wants out. The C.I.A., not unused to this kind of problem, decide the best way is in a box...but then the real problems begin. How to find a replacement and settle him into the job without attracting suspicion? The answer is a decoy, a dispensable agent. Someone like Mark Girland, a man with a fatal weakness for money and women. A man known to the Russians, and a man the C.I.A. would be only too willing to lose. But Girland has another basic instinct... the will to survive."

Published by Gold Medal (987) in April 1960. Cover art is not credited.

Originally published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in hardback as "Ring Around Rosa" in 1955. This re-titled paperback edition published by Dell (926) is undated but is circa 1957. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

Published by Digit Books (R666) in 1963. Cover art by Robert A. Osborne.

Published by Pocket (ISBN: 0671779044) in March 1974. The Baroness series was packaged by Lyle Kenyon Engel, but the actual authors of the eight books are unknown. Cover art by Hector Garrido.

First published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (hardback) in 1949 as "Devil on Two Sticks." First re-titled Signet paperback published in February 1950. This fourth Signet printing (S1964) is dated June 1961. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

First published by Gold Medal in 1952. This digest edition (234) published by Star Books, Sydney, Australia in 1954.

First published by Gold Medal in 1950. This digest edition (257) published by Star Books, Sydney, Australia in 1954.

First published in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape (hardback) in 1955. First U.S paperback edition was as "Too Hot to Handle" by Permabooks in 1956, therefore this Signet edition (S1850) from October 1960 is the first U.S paperback with the original title. Cover art by Barye Phillips.