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<i><b>Le Lion Rouge</b></i>: the French inn where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#g23">Lady Janet Gillam</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#q02">Quinn</a> await word of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> attempt to rescue <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c36">Chateau Lancieux</a>. [SM]

<a name="l24"></a><b>Leah</b>: the nurse who looked after <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c43">Ben Christie</a> while he recuperated at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> villa near Tangier. [NM]

<a name="l25"></a><b>Legend, The</b>: an exclusive London restaurant where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> take <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a> for supper, so they can grill him for suggestions for a birthday present for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a>. While in the restaurant, the trio is confronted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m83">Jacko Muktar</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c25">Adrian Chance</a>. The meeting prompts Fraser to tell Modesty and Willie the story of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s52">Singapore papers</a>. [IV]

<a name="l26"></a><b>Leighton, Monsieur</b>: the American owner of the painting by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w09">Watteau</a> that is stolen from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m87">Musée Mattioret</a> by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> using a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d31">device</a> constructed by Willie. [ST]

<a name="l27"></a><b>Leila</b>: a French-Chinese nymphomaniac from Bangkok, one of the prostitutes in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s41"><i>seraglio</i></a>, or brothel. [ST]

<a name="l28"></a><b>Leng, Chit</b>: the local Thai-style champion that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> was fighting in Saigon when he was first seen by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. [DMH]

<a name="l29"></a><b>Lensk</b>: the false name used by an operative of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a> who ran the sections dealing with international intelligence and industrial espionage. A defector from the KGB who had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, his real name is not recorded. [NM]

<a name="l30"></a><b>Les Genévriers</b>: a small ten-bed hospital owned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a>. [NM]

<a name="l31"></a><b>Leybourn Enterprises</b>: the business owned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is selling flags for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m54">Mental Health</a> in front of Leybourn Enterprises when Charles Leybourn pinches her bottom. [SGC]

<a name="l32"></a><b>Leybourn, Charles</b>: a wealthy businessman, the head of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l31">Leybourn Enterprises</a>. Leybourn pinches <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> bottom when he encounters her selling flags for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m54">Mental Health</a> outside his offices. He is married to a much younger Javanese girl named <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l33">Soo</a>. When Leybourn is killed by his wife, Modesty and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> cover up the murder by making it appear that he died in a car crash, assuming that Soo was motivated by the abusive treatment she received from her husband. [SGC]

<a name="l33"></a><b>Leybourn, Soo</b>: the Javanese wife of businessman <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l32">Charles Leybourn</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> stops Soo from committing suicide as she and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> are preparing to burgle Leybourn's safe. Soo later kills her husband as the pair are getting ready to leave the house. They cover up her actions and help her return to her family in Java, based on an assumption about her motives that turns out to be incorrect. [SGC]

<a name="l34"></a><b>Li Gomm</b>: a chigro from Macau, one of the guards at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. [DC]

<a name="l35"></a><b>Liebmann</b>: the Chief of Staff in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k12">Karz's</a> mercenary army. [ST]

<a name="l36"></a><b>Limbo</b>: a coffee plantation in Guatemala run by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a> for the amusement of his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b25">Aunt Benita</a>. Limbo is worked by a group of slaves made up of powerful and wealthy people from all over the world who have been kidnapped and brought there for that purpose. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> are led to Limbo in their search for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse</a>, acting on information provided by both <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l51">Lucifer</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c56">Dinah Collier</a>. [LDL]

<a name="l37"></a><b>lipstick</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> fashions a lipstick case for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> that can shoot a burst of tear-gas far enough to disable someone at a distance of six feet. Modesty uses it to disarm one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> men as she and Willie are escaping from Gabriel's headquarters. [MB]

<a name="l38"></a><b>Lisette[1]</b>: the owner of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#l02"><i>La Nymphe d'Argent</i></a>. [NM]

<a name="l39"></a><b>Lisette[2]</b>: the daughter of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m80">Moulay</a>. Lisette worked at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> house in Tangier as a maid. Approximately three years younger than Modesty, the two women became close friends. Lisette was stabbed and killed by a couple of junkies for the money in her purse. Modesty blamed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b23">Bellman</a> for the death. [BM]

<a name="l40"></a><b>Little Garnet</b>: the emergency code name <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> uses for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#w15">Weng</a> when she contacts him by radio from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#k06">Kalivari</a>. [DMH]

<a name="l41"></a><b>Lob</b>: a Jewish professor from Budapest. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> met him in a refugee camp when she was approximately seven years old. She spent several years with him as his protector and pupil as they wandered around the Middle East and North Africa. He gave her the name "Modesty," and told her the legend of Arthur, King of Britain, from which she took the name "Blaise," the name of the magician Merlin's tutor. When he died, Modesty buried Lob in the desert. [XT, DA]

<a name="l42"></a><b>Loeb</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel's</a> five overseers at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b52"><i>Bonaccord</i></a>. Loeb was wanted for murder. He is shot by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> with a rifle at the beginning of the battle to escape from the estate. [IV]

<a name="l43"></a><b>Lois</b>: one of the slaves being held at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>. [LDL]

<a name="l44"></a><b>Lok</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t38">The Twins</a>. [ST]

<a name="l45"></a><b>Lomax, Inspector Harry</b>: a friend of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b79">Inspector Brook</a>, and a police officer who covers the area where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b42"><i>The Black Horse</i></a> is located. Lomax provides Brook with information about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p36">Pike</a> and his possible ties to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s09">Salamander Four</a>. Lomax is on leave when he arrests <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s58">Skendi</a> near <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty's</a> cottage following the Albanian's failed assassination attempt. [OA]

<a name="l46"></a><b>Long Arrow, Charlie</b>: the sixty year-old Shoshone guide who accompanies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d05">John Dall</a> on their canoe trip in Idaho. He is killed by the two <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s75">Specials</a> sent by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero</a> to kidnap Modesty and Dall. [LDL]

<a name="l47"></a><b>Louche, Henri</b>: the head of a small criminal organization that controlled a gaming establishment in Tangier where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> worked at the age of 17. After Louche and his second in command were killed by rivals in a gang war, Modesty took over control of his organization, which became known as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a>. [MB]

<a name="l48"></a><b>Lowry, Skeet</b>: claimed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage15.htm#p53">Sir Howard Presteign</a> to be one of the six best pilots in Europe or the United States. Lowry flies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a>, and right into the hands of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a>. Lowry is totally faithful to whoever is paying him, but when Modesty and Willie convince him that his bosses plan to kill him, he switches sides and agrees to fly the prisoners from Mus to safety for $20,000. Modesty makes back the fee by selling short on Presteign Holdings two days before she drowns Presteign. The stock falls 25% on news of his death, leaving just enough after taxes to pay off Lowry. [TFD]

<a name="l49"></a><b>Lu, Wei</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c39">Molly Chen's</a> grandfather. A deserter from the Chinese Army who had settled in Honk Kong, Lu owed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a> £50,000 for services rendered. When <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> went to collect the sum on his first <i>Network</i> assignment, he was informed that Lu had been captured by his former superior officer and was being held prisoner at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k32">Kui-tan</a> in China. Willie rescued Lu from the Chinese, rather than return to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> empty-handed. [DMH]

<a name="l50"></a><b>Lubyanka Prison</b>: a prison located in Dzerzhinsky Street in Moscow. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#r56">John Ryan</a> is taken to the prison after being picked up in Sofia. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#v10">René Vaubois</a> has a source inside the prison, and is able to inform <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser</a> that Ryan took his own life within 48 hours of his arrival at Lubyanka. [DC] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p43">Pirie</a> was imprisoned and tortured at Lubyanka. [NM]

<a name="l51"></a><b>Lucifer</b>: a paranoid young man who has deluded himself into believing that he is Satan. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a> makes use of Lucifer's precognitive abilities to predict natural deaths as part of a scheme to extract protection money from rich victims. Lucifer kills Seff when <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> return to Seff's base in the Philippines to rescue both <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> and Lucifer. [IL] Modesty takes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c38">Danny Chavasse's</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b70">Breguet watch</a> to Lucifer in New York to see if he can tell her if its owner is still alive. Lucifer tells her that "he dwells in the upper levels still." [LDL] Lucifer is visited by Modesty in an attempt to see if Willie is still alive, and later by Steve Collier to see if Modesty is still alive, following their respective disappearances. In both cases, the answer is yes. [DMH]

<a name="l52"></a><b>Luco</b>: a Panamanian Indian who serves as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> guide while diving for the pearls he needs to complete the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p17">necklace</a> he is fashioning for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>. [TFD]

<a name="l53"></a><b>Ludz</b>: a guard at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#d43">Dragon's Claw</a>. He is killed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d16">Clarissa de Courtney-Scott</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b81">Beauregard Browne's</a> orders. [DC]

<a name="l54"></a><b>Luigi</b>: a member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> criminal organization, the pilot of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#g26"><i>Giolitti</i></a>. [MB]

<a name="l55"></a><b>Luisa</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie's</a> girls, a <i>fado</i> singing fan. Willie is with Luisa on the beach in Lisbon when he is kidnapped by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#e10">Emilio</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f26">Forli</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#u01">Ugo</a>, and an unnamed fourth man. [ST]

<a name="l56"></a><b>Lussac</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#c14">Paul Casanova's</a> bodyguards. [XT]

<a name="m01"></a><b>Mabel</b>: a little pixie that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> claims offered him three wishes after he saved her from being caught in some brambles. [CT]

<a name="m02"></a><b>Macanza</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k09">Kaltchas's</a> driver. He is not hurt in the attack by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d11">The Dark Angels</a> which takes his employer's life. [DA]

<a name="m03"></a><b>mace</b>: to keep <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t09">Professor Malcolm Tangye</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t08">his wife</a>, and the rest of the workers at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#m85">Mus</a> submissive, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#d26">Simon Delicata</a> has them locked in a sealed room and sprayed with mace, a form of nerve gas, three times a day. When <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c57">Steve Collier</a> are subjected to the same treatment, Modesty renders Collier unconscious before she and Willie put themselves into a trance. [TFD]

<a name="m04"></a><b>machete</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> kills one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage03.htm#b84">Brunel's</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage10.htm#k23">Kikuyu</a> guards with a thrown machete during the fight to escape from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b52"><i>Bonaccord</i></a>. [IV]

<a name="m05"></a><b>Mahjoub</b>: an Arab who raped <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> when she was 13 or 14. She killed him with a nail wired to a piece of wood, and then sold his mule and other belongings to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a11">Alâeddin</a>. [XT]

<a name="m06"></a><b>Mahmoud</b>: a Moroccan boy employed by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a> at its Tangier office. [NM]

<a name="m07"></a><b>Mailer Gallery</b>: the art gallery where <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> purchased <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#f18">Luke Fletcher's</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#e12"><i>Estaminet</i></a>. [DC]

<a name="m08"></a><b>Maisie</b>: a prostitute in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage12.htm#m47">Clare McTurk's</a> New Orleans brothel. [SM]

<a name="m09"></a><b>Malaurak</b>: a tiny Sheikdom located between Syria and Iraq. Recognized by the Treaty of '56, and the site of an oil discovery in the days of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a05">Abu-Tahir</a> is the Sheik of Malaurak. [MB] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> and a group of twenty men had overturned a coup attempt that had followed the discovery of oil. The Sheikdom will vanish, absorbed by its neighbours, when the elderly Abu-Tahir dies. [LDL] After destroying his operation, Modesty had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b56">Bora</a> shipped to Malaurak, where he faced hard labour as a slave for the rest of his life. [NM]

<a name="m10"></a><b>Malcolm</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f33">Jack Fraser's</a> nephew. Malcolm figured often and luridly as a hideous comparative in Fraser's conversation. [DC]

<a name="m11"></a><b>Malta</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> have a little villa in Malta, which they use as a base while trying to find specimens of all the different wildflowers. [IV] Modesty stays at the villa with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#f18">Luke Fletcher</a> following his recovery after his rescue. While there, she learns from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#f38">Alfredo Frezzi</a> that someone is very interested in whether or not Luke remembers what happened to him during the time of his disappearance. [DC] Willie takes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage04.htm#c39">Molly Chen</a> to the villa when the pair go on vacation together. [DMH]

<a name="m12"></a><b>Mam'selle</b>: in the days of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> was addressed and referred to simply as "Mam'selle" by the men who worked for her. [IL, IV, LDL, XT, NM, DMH]

<a name="m13"></a><i><b>Mandrake</b></i>: a yacht owned by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel</a>, used as a decoy. While <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#h01">Paul Hagan</a> watch the <i>Mandrake</i>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a21"><i>Andronicus</i></a> is used to launch the real theft of the diamonds from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t39"><i>The Tyboria</i></a>. [MB]

<a name="m14"></a><b>Mandrou</b>: a member of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage06.htm#e07">El Mico's</a> criminal organization. [XT]

<a name="m15"></a><b>Manetta, Mr.</b>: the chief receptionist at The Ritz. He informs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#t11">Sir Gerald Tarrant</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> about the "moments of unusual interest" caused by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage01.htm#a05">Sheik Abu-Tahir's</a> stay at the hotel. [MB]

<a name="m16"></a><b>Manuela</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b25">Miss Benita's</a> servants. [LDL]

<a name="m17"></a><b>Margello</b>: one of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g03">Gabriel's</a> men who kidnaps <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p37">Dinah Pilgrim</a>, and the killer of her sister <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p38">Judy</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage07.htm#g10">Willie</a> kills Margello with a Bowie knife when he rescues Dinah. [TFD]

<a name="m18"></a><i><b>Marimba</b></i>: the tanker owned by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage09.htm#h29">Hostel of Righteousness</a> that will be used in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage08.htm#h04">Hallelujah Scenario</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> is able to warn <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage19.htm#v02">Captain Axel Valerius</a> that he and his men will be killed when the ship is destroyed for insurance purposes. As a result, Valerius sells the ship for $12,5000,000 and deposits 10% of the proceeds in a Swiss bank account in Modesty's name. [DMH]

<a name="m19"></a><b>Marker</b>: one of the slaves being held at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l36">Limbo</a>, a South African diamond man who earned himself three floggings in his first six weeks on the plantation. Marker is one of the group of slaves that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> organizes to fight against <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage14.htm#p14">Paxero's</a> men when the time comes, although he is initially reluctant to take orders from a woman. [LDL] Following the rescue, Marker chipped in with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage18.htm#v01">Valdez</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage17.htm#s86">Stavros</a> to buy <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage05.htm#c74">Dr. Kim Crozier</a> a practice in San Francisco. [NM]

<a name="m20"></a><b>Marroc</b>: a Chigro who controlled the thriving vice rackets in Panama. When he tried to have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage02.htm#b44">Modesty</a> killed in the days of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage13.htm#n09"><i>The Network</i></a>, she delivered a wounded Marroc to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s07">Sergeant Sagasta</a>, with enough evidence to put him away for 15 years. The Marroc affair was the beginning of Sagasta's rapid promotion. [TFD]

<a name="m21"></a><b>Marston, Dr.</b>: the doctor who comes along on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s13"><i>Samarkand</i></a> to look after <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage11.htm#l51">Lucifer</a> after he's rescued from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210828055910/http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mbpage16.htm#s35">Seff</a>. [IL]