To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.
In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.
Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.
Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".
There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.
Uncle Happy is one of my favorite Modesty Blaise episodes. She and Willie make huge risks and showcase their guerilla fighting skills to beat an evil, eccentric, wealthy couple.
Solid all around except for the presentation. Way too small for that many words- each page is a prose page to read. It's something that reads perfectly day-to-day but when lumped atop each other it becomes burdensome. But that's a quality of the best in strip cartooning.
England's Titan Books does it perfectly ->album sized<- with no white blocks between SO if you want an intro to a beautifully stripped Modesty-> go that way first.
4.5 ⭐️ - am i ready to dedicate my life to another 'will they/won't they' devotional friendship filled with romantic/sexual undertones that could hit you right in the face...well yes, yes i am