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." Length: ~55 minutes
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist, and commander in the royal Navy during the Second World War. He was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.
