Night of the Hats

  A Taste For Death Willie Garvin is in Panama, diving for pearls*. One afternoon he spots two men attacking two women on a beach; they drown one and the other, blind, is unable to get away. He rescues the blind woman, Dinah Pilgrim, killing the men. Learning they worked for Gabriel, a villain he’s encountered before, he goes to ground, knowing that Gabriel’s connections with the criminal underworld will let him find them if they try to leave. He sends a distress call to his partner in crime, Modesty Blaise. Modesty is in England relaxing after the events of I, Lucifer , with paranormal investigator Stephen Collier. Sir Gerald Tarrant, who works for British Intelligence asks Modesty to meet an old friend who has some doubts about an archaeological dig in the Sahara. Arriving they encounter a strangely built man outside; inside the friend is dead of a broken neck. Rather than investigate this, Modesty instead takes off for Panama, where they engage in a battle of wits to get D...