The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Dennis Wheatley and Ian Fleming

...DW describes Fleming as a friend in his autobiography

DW's comments about Ian Fleming in the second volume of his autobiography, published when both were dead

...and an enlargement of what he said

As can be seen, in the second volume of his autobiography, 'Officer and Temporary Gentleman', DW included the then-deceased Ian Fleming at the bottom of a long paragraph talking about his favourite adventure and detection novels, saying:

'Ian Fleming hit the high spot with his James bond stories (he, too, was a friend of mine)'.

Earlier in the same chapter, DW wrote that his favourite historical romances and spy stories were Anthony Hope's 'The Prisoner of Zenda', Baroness Orczy's 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and Alexandre Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers', and he adds that he would have much liked to have written one of these three because each gave a name to the English language - in their cases 'Musketeer', 'Scarlet Pimpernel' and 'Ruritania'.

The James Bond novels were of course written much later, and therefore had no influence on DW as a budding novelist, but it is perhaps interesting that DW did not include the name of perhaps the best known fictional secret agent of modern times in that list.