The Diamonds Are Forever script features Fleming’s alterations on almost every page and was prepared by his secretary Ulrica Knowles, a real-life Miss Moneypenny. A first edition of Fleming’s completed novel, with a note from the author to Knowles, is also going under the hammer alongside the manuscript. The original text includes name changes for some of the key characters in the plot, which tells the story of a diamond smuggling scheme involving American gangsters. The villain Dolly Kidd was originally called Boofy Gore, after Arthur ‘Boofy’ Gore, who in reality was a close friend of the famed author.
