"In the past six months I've put six juries in the box, " says Fleming, relaxing in a hotel conference room across from the fortresslike Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

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The 1930 Hotel Palacio reportedly did just that for author Ian Fleming.

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As a British Naval Intelligence officer, young Fleming rubbed elbows with some of those colorful characters at the hotel.

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