Octopussy and The Living Daylights [SEP] series
Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the fourteenth and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966.
The book originally contained just two stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights", with subsequent editions also carrying firstly "The Property of a Lady" and then "007 in New York". The stories were
guano-collecting ship in "Dr. No", calling it "Blanche". Blackwell had given Fleming a coracle called "Octopussy", the name of which Fleming used for the story. "Octopussy" was posthumously serialised in the "Daily Express" newspaper, 4–8 October 1965.
Background "The Living Daylights".
Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger", although when it first appeared, in "The Sunday Times" colour supplement of 4 February 1962, it was under the title