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* CreatorBacklash: Allegedly, Creator/IanFleming was so disappointed with "The Property of a Lady" that he refused payment from Soetheby's (it was also excluded from the original Octopussy collection, only being inserted decades after Fleming died).

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* CreatorBacklash: Allegedly, Creator/IanFleming was so disappointed with "The Property of a Lady" that he refused payment from the magazine that commissioned it (it was also excluded from the original Octopussy collection, only being inserted decades after Fleming died).

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* CreatorBacklash: Allegedly, Creator/IanFleming was so disappointed with "The Property of a Lady" that he refused payment from the magazine that commissioned it Soetheby's (it was also excluded from the original Octopussy collection, only being inserted decades after Fleming died).


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* WorkingTitle: "The Living Daylights" was originally called "Trigger Finger" and "007 in New York" was originally called "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac".
* WriteWhatYouKnow: "Octopussy" covers a lot of Fleming's favourite topics - hidden gold, tropical fish, and the wartime exploits of commandos.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: "Trigger" in "The Living Daylights" was partly based on Fleming's half-sister Amaryllis Fleming, a concert cellist with blonde hair. He even managed to get a passing reference to her in the story:
-->Of course Suggia had managed to look elegant, as did that girl Amaryllis somebody.
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* CreatorBacklash: Allegedly, Creator/IanFleming was so disappointed with "The Property of a Lady" that he refused payment from the magazine that commissioned it (it was also excluded from the original Octopussy collection, only being inserted decades after Fleming died).
* PosthumousCredit: The book was published two years after Creator/IanFleming's death.
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