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The Bond we deserve?

Each 007 reflects its era, but Daniel Craig's brutish creation seems to have shaken and stirred Fleming's vision

November 5, 2008 By JOHN ANDERSON Special to Newsday

Mystery writer P.D. James once admitted that she had watched actor Roy Marsden play her most famous creation, Adam Dalgliesh, so many times - five different TV miniseries had featured the actor as the poetic New Scotland Yard detective - that Marsden had replaced any other image she had of her phlegmatic Brit.

"When I write Dalgliesh now," James said, "Roy Marsden is who I see."

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