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''The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½'' is a 1967 James Bond spin-off novel carrying the Glidrose Productions copyright. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Jonathan Cape publishing company in 1967 and later in 1968 in the United States by Random House. The American edition was retitled ''003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior''. The novel was written under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott; the real name of the author to this day has never been officially revealed by the current owners of the Ian Fleming Estate (i.e., Ian Fleming Publications a.k.a. Glidrose) or Eon Productions (Danjaq), who owns the screen rights to the novel. Although the novel is based around a character who is the nephew of James Bond, in Ian Fleming's own novels Bond in fact was an only child and indeed an orphan, however, unbeknownst to agent 007 he does have a son as told in ''You Only Live Twice''. In 1966 Harry Saltzman announced a television series about a ten-year-old who fought SPECTRE that could have been based on ''003½'' but nothing became of it. At some other point Bond film producers Saltzman and Broccoli planned to make either a theatrical feature or a TV series based on the ''003½'' premise. The producers discussed story ideas with several unidentified screenwriters in London. ''The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½'' is considered a failed attempt at launching a youth-oriented line of fiction aimed at 8 to 14 year olds. A moderately successful television series of the same name was launched in 1991, produced by Eon Productions / Danjaq. The success of the show spawned numerous novelizations, a video game, and comic books. Unrelated to ''003½'', Ian Fleming Publications began publishing a successful youth-oriented line of Young Bond adventures featuring James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s beginning in 2005. Although an officially licensed spin-off from the James Bond series, its place within the canon of the books—if any—has never been established. ==The author== It was not known who wrote ''The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½'', although many authors had been named as possibilities including Roald Dahl and Kingsley Amis. Amis was usually seen as unlikely since a year later he released ''Colonel Sun'' under the pseudonym Robert Markham, however, unlike R. D. Mascott, Amis's authoring of ''Colonel Sun'' was never a secret. Amis's writing style was also not similar to Mascott. Roald Dahl on the other hand did share some similarities specifically with one book he wrote in 1975, ''Danny, the Champion of the World''. In 1967, Roald Dahl completed the screenplay for ''You Only Live Twice'' for Eon Productions, the same year ''The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½'' was published. Although there was evidence to suggest Dahl may have written ''003½'', there was equally as much evidence to suggest he had not. Several authorities attributed the novel to Arthur Calder-Marshall.〔Palmer, Martyn. ''Rider on the storm''; The Times (London, England), 15 Jul 2006. p.8〕 Calder-Marshall had written a number of similar books especially in style and his descriptions of characters and environments in his books ''The Magic of My Youth'' (1951) and ''The Scarlet Boy'' (1961). It had also been suggested that the initials R. D. are a play on the name Arthur, which is typically shortened to Artie. Several years ago, the now defunct 007Forever.com website made a detailed case for the claim that Arthur Calder-Marshall was indeed the author behind the R.D. Mascott pseudonym. This incredibly detailed analysis focused greatly on the writing style, and compared specific paragraphs from "003½: The Adventures Of James Bond Junior" to several of Calder-Marshall’s novels which were published at roughly around the same time. As reported at Her Majesty’s Secret Servant, the identity of Mascott was kept a secret for decades until it was confirmed by his executors to be Arthur Calder-Marshall (August 19, 1908 – April 17, 1992). ==Plot summary== The plot follows James Bond Junior while he tries to uncover what is going on at Hazeley Hall. He and Sheelagh Smith, his "girlfriend" follow the clues of this mystery, but the information is given to the Commander of the police when James is injured. The Commander ultimately gets the credit for solving the case and threatens James if he says anything. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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