James Bond (A Caribbean Mystery)

James Bond (1900-1989), an American ornithologist in real life, makes an appearance in the 2013 ITV adaptation of A Caribbean Mystery. Edward Hillingdon, himself an ornithologist in this adaptation, arranges a lecture by Bond at the Golden Palm Hotel for the guests.

The lecture is about guano and this gives Miss Marple a clue about the motive for the crimes happening at the hotel (a motive which is different from that in the original novel). Also present at the lecture is another character from real life, Ian Fleming. He attends the lecture and tells Miss Marple that he is planning to write a spy novel but is stuck about finding a suitable name for his hero. When he hears James Bond being introduced as the speaker, he has a flash of inspiration and jots the name down. This event supposedly parallels real life in that Fleming stated that he got the idea for his fictional spy character's name after he saw it on "Birds of the West Indies", a book written by the real life James Bond.