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DOUBLESHOT. by  Raymond Benson 1997. Thanks to Iwan Morelius.

Geoffrey Boothroyd  and   Ian Fleming  picture from Ivan Morelius Doubleshot (ISBN: 9780399146145) Condition: Brand New Publication Year: 2000 Author: Raymond Benson Language: English Format: Hardback Subject: Action/Adventure Series: James Bond Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed Bibliographic Details Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, UK Publication Date: 2000 Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Fine Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Signed: Signed by Author Edition: First Edition

Raymond Benson biografi DOUBLESHOT. by  Raymond Benson  BENSON, Raymond. James Bond in Doubleshot. SIGNED  Doubleshot (ISBN: 9780399146145) Raymond Benson

( Ian Fleming and Geoffrey Boothroyd )

CODENAME : GOLD Raymond!  DOUBLESHOT. by  Raymond Benson 1997. We have some ideas what will happen to James Bond in your book. If you think some of our suggestions is good please use what you find interesting and worthwhile to use.                                                                 Iwan & Margareta                                                                 Campo Verde 1997-05-11 James Bond is on Holiday in Marbella in order to meet his old friend Sean Connery and to play golf with him. During his stay in Marbella he get involved in some trouble in the hotel-bar  where he is staying one night. He helps a neautiful woman from some men, who seems to be russian and who also belongs to the russian mafia in Spain. This woman knows that the russians have in mind to get hold of two gold treasures: The german gold stolen from the jews during WW2 and mentioned in Desmond Bagley´s thriller THE GOLDEN KEEL. The russian gold mentioned in Brian Garfield´s thriller KOLCHACHS GOLD and Jon Cleary´s THE GOLDEN SABRE. There is also a well hidden gold treasure close to the old city Zaragoza. It was collected by the late Franco during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930th. Zaragoza is a town Ernest Hemingway liked very much and is close to the place wheres he visited and mentioned in his excellent book FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. The russian mafia will get hold of all this gold in order to take controll of the whole drug market in Spain and northern Africa. Before Desmonnd Bsagley died he told me (Iwan) about the nazi gold. In fact Bagley was involved in that story because at the end of the was that gold was transported by train to a hidden place in German. The train was taken by the allies and Bagley and four of his army officers knew where it was hidden. After the war those four men wanted to get hold of the gold but Bagley dropped out of it as he had heard that the german organisation ODESSA also had found out where it was hidden. Bagley told me that his four army friends had suddenly died in ”accidents” in Germany.

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GEOFFREY BOOTHROYD – MY FIRST ENGLISH GUEST

                     By Iwan Morelius (then Hedman)

I had just founded my magazine DAST-MAGAZINE in september 1968, but it should take two more years before I got my first English guest. It was my old pen-friend since many years, Geoffrey Boothroyd, so well known among James Bond-fans as ”James Bond´s armourer” in almost all the movies. No, not as an actor, but always the man who choosed James Bon´ds´ weapons. You are of course familiar with the background that Geoff Boothroyd sent Ian fleming a letter where he told Ian that ”if James Bond would survive the next adventure he had to change weapon. Instead of the Beretta he should have a Swith & Wesson (see photo). Geoff said in the letter to Ian Fleming: ”…is utterly useless as well being a lady´s gun!”  Ian Fleming was grateful and from the next book, which was From Russia With Love( Kamrat mördare), James used the S&W. The gun used by Richard Chopping for the jacket to that book was Geoff´s own gun .

 17th of August 1970 Geoff came to Strängnäs  as our  guest  and as he also was very interested in Scottish pistols/guns from the 1600 century, I had suggested to him to visit Sko Kloster, which had a wonderful collection of such weapons. Geoff came and showed up to be a most   charming man with great humour and quick to laugh. And his knowledge of weapons was enormous. He knew more than I even about our Swedish weapons. Some years later he wrote a book with the title The Handguns, which since then is the gun collectors bible. I was happy to be able to help him with some research and found two very rare Swedish books about handguns for him.

Geoff and my wife Inga (ex.wife today)in Strängnäs 1970

These two books Geoff had never seen, just heard about, so he was very grateful when I gave them to him for his collection.

Geoff and I also visited my regiment – P 10 – in Strängnäs and he was invited to the officers mess. He was guided around by my regimental chief after we had some coffe. Suddenly Geoff stopped in front of a big portrait, reading the information on a plate. He then told us that the portrait was of a scottish officer (colonel) who had been regimental chief at P 10 in early 1600. His name was Alexander Leslie. We also made a viti to Stockholm and Livrustkammarern, where they had two very rare scottish pistols, which Geoff got the permission to take into parts and take photos of. These pistols had been own by Count Oxenstierna who had got them from a scottish noble man. The value of those pistols was around 72.000:- Skr each! Geoff said to me: ”Iwan, just to have been able to hold these pistols was worth my trip to Sweden! I have never seen such pistols before. They are unic in the world. We don´t even have such pistols in Scotland!!!

When Geoff and I visited the shooting range at P 10 some days later he showed me what a craftsman he was. He used my personal gun, a Husqvarna m/40 and my mashingun, a K-pist m/45  with 36 bullets. Geoff beat me with both guns and put 8 rounds with the pistol in the middle of the target at 30 meters. Then he used my K-pist and put the whole magazine (36 rounds) in the middle of a paper-figure. I was amazed. But he had been Scottish champion a couple of times.

Geoff at P 10 shooting range with my k-pist m/45

Geoff at P 10 shooting range with my Husqvarna m/40	Geoffs´ book about guns

Some years later I had the pleasure to visit Geoff in his home in Glasgow where he showed me his fantastic gun collection. In a letter a couple of years later he told me he had sold the collection because he was affraid of burglery.
Geoffrey Boothroyd died after a heart attack on the 20th of October 2001. I´m very glad I had met Geoff and that I was a friend of him for so many years. I´m still in touch with his daughter Susan, who also was his secretary.
Three years after his death his family decided to sell his collection of letters from Ian Fleming and also some of the 1.editions signed by Fleming to Geoff. Bloomsbury in London had an opening price for the letters at something between £15.000-20.000 and for the books (From Russia With Love, Dr. No) £4.000-5.000.
The letters were sold for £44.750 and the books for £19.450!

This is Geoffs personal Smith & Wesson which he in September 1956 borrowed to IanFleming and the illustrator Richar Chopping for the jacket of From Russia With Love. It was a bit complicated  as a murder took place in the same house where the revolver was situated. The same sort of weapon had been used to kill a man there.

                     Ett av många brev som Geoff fick under sin långa brevväxling med Ian Fleming.

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Iwan Morelius

Campo Verde29 December 2007

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