Description:This short story has an interesting background. The world renowned auction company, Sotheby's, asked Ian Fleming to write a fictional story featuring the company and its Chairman Peter Wilson to be printed in their 1963 annual review. The result was "Property of a Lady."M and Bond have received information about the pending sale at auction of a fabulous Carl Faberge piece of jewellry called the Emerald Sphere. The source of the jewel appears to trace back to the Soviet government. Could it be that the KGB is using this method of rewarding a double agent inside the British Secret Service? Is there a way James Bond, by attending the Sotheby's auction, could determine who is the Soviet's Resident Director in London? He'd be their number one spy in the UK. M and Bond decide to try!Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story "The Property of a Lady." It is one of four in the collection, "Octopussy and The Living Daylights." Entries for all nine Bond short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a James Bond Short Story."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Property of a Lady - a James Bond Short Story (James Bond). To get started finding The Property of a Lady - a James Bond Short Story (James Bond), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
34
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Release
1966
ISBN
The Property of a Lady - a James Bond Short Story (James Bond)
Description: This short story has an interesting background. The world renowned auction company, Sotheby's, asked Ian Fleming to write a fictional story featuring the company and its Chairman Peter Wilson to be printed in their 1963 annual review. The result was "Property of a Lady."M and Bond have received information about the pending sale at auction of a fabulous Carl Faberge piece of jewellry called the Emerald Sphere. The source of the jewel appears to trace back to the Soviet government. Could it be that the KGB is using this method of rewarding a double agent inside the British Secret Service? Is there a way James Bond, by attending the Sotheby's auction, could determine who is the Soviet's Resident Director in London? He'd be their number one spy in the UK. M and Bond decide to try!Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story "The Property of a Lady." It is one of four in the collection, "Octopussy and The Living Daylights." Entries for all nine Bond short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a James Bond Short Story."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Property of a Lady - a James Bond Short Story (James Bond). To get started finding The Property of a Lady - a James Bond Short Story (James Bond), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.