Editing Goldfinger (novel) (section)

===Plot inspirations===
[[File:Royal St George's Golf Clubhouse. - geograph.org.uk - 304182.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|alt=Building of a Georgian style, partly obscured by low-level buildings in front|The clubhouse at [[Royal St George's Golf Club]]]]
Fleming based some points in the book on events he had read about. The pre-First World War death of a showgirl in Europe after she had covered herself in paint was one such idea,{{sfn|Gant|1966|p=137}} and the depressurisation of Goldfinger's plane was a plot device Fleming had intended to use elsewhere, but which he included in ''Goldfinger''. Some years previously a plane had depressurised over the Lebanon and an American passenger had been sucked out of the window; Fleming, who was not a comfortable airline passenger, had made note of the incident to use it.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=129}} As he had done in previous Bond novels, Fleming used the names of several friends or associates in the novel. The surname of [[John Cecil Masterman|Sir John Masterman]], the MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the [[double-cross system]] during the Second World War, was used as the basis for the Masterton sisters; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at [[Royal St George's Golf Club]], Sandwich, became Alfred Blacking;{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} while the Royal St George's Golf Club itself became the Royal St Mark's, for the game between Bond and Goldfinger.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|pp=180–183}}

In June 1957 Fleming played in the Bowmaker Pro-Am golf tournament at the Berkshire Golf Club, where he partnered [[Peter Thomson (golfer)|Peter Thomson]], the winner of [[The Open Championship]]; much of the background went into the match between Bond and Goldfinger.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=315}}{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=17}} One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was [[Blanche Blackwell]]; Fleming used Blanche as the model for Pussy Galore,{{sfn|Thomson|2008}} although the name "Pussy" came from Mrs "Pussy" Deakin, formerly Livia Stela, an [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent and friend of Fleming's wife [[Ann Fleming|Ann]].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}}

Fleming's golf partner, John Blackwell (a cousin to Blanche Blackwell), was also a cousin by marriage to Ernő Goldfinger and disliked him: it was Blackwell who reminded Fleming of the name. Fleming also disliked Goldfinger, who, Fleming thought, destroyed Victorian buildings and replaced them with his own [[modernist]] designs, particularly a terrace at Goldfinger's own residence at [[2 Willow Road]], [[Hampstead]].{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|pp=90–91}} Blackwell had his name used as the heroin smuggler at the beginning of the book, with a sister who was a heroin addict.{{sfn|Ezard|2005}}

There were some similarities between Ernő and Auric Goldfinger: both were Jewish immigrants who came to Britain from Eastern Europe in the 1930s and both were Marxists.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=328}}{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=92}} The fictional and real Goldfingers were physically very different.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=92}} According to the historian Henry Chancellor the likely model for Auric Goldfinger was the American gold tycoon [[Charles W. Engelhard Jr.]],{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=129}} whom Fleming had met in 1949.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=92}} Engelhard had established a business, the Precious Metals Development Company, which circumvented numerous export restrictions, selling gold ingots directly into Hong Kong.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=329}}