Dr. No (novel) Dr. No (novel) Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958. The novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile
Dr. No (film) all appeared in subsequent films. These conventions were also lampooned in spoof films, such as the "Austin Powers" series. The first spoof films happened relatively soon after "Dr. No", with the 1964 film "Carry On Spying" showing the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor). A further legacy saw the sales of Fleming's novels rise sharply after the release of "Dr. No" and the subsequent films. In the seven months after "Dr. No" was released, 1.5 million copies of the novel were sold. Worldwide sales of all the "Bond"