At the conclusion of the novel From Russia With Love there was every indication that Ian Fleming, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle before him, had every intention of killing off his famous literary creation. The climax of the book finds James Bond stabbed by Rosa Klebb's poison-tipped knife blade concealed in her shoe. The ambiguous ending finds Bond slumping onto the floor with nary a happy ending in sight. Whereas Doyle had to be persuaded by public pressure to resurrect Sherlock Holmes, Fleming never seriously considered killing off Bond. The evidence? A letter from 1957 that Fleming wrote to a distraught fan assuring her of Bond's restored health. Amusingly, he presented the news in the format of an MI6 internal memo. Click here to read