This is about as real as a literary location gets: 3 1/2 Love Lane. Bond was led here by an ad in the Daily Gleaner. Kingston auctioneer C.D. Alexander Co. was auctioning the property and it was the center of a series of lucky breaks that 007 leveraged to complete his last great adventure.

"There was only one big house on the right. He took some time lighting the cigarette while he examined it. It must have once had importance, perhaps as the private house of a merchant. It was of two storeys with balconies running all the way around and it was wooden built with silvering shingles . . But in the back there was one very beautiful lignum vitae tree in full blue blossom."
- Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun, (Ch. 5: "No 3 1/2 Love Lane")

The constable who walked me over here was most amused that someone had come all the way from San Francisco to see this building.

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